TYPES OF NOVEL

1. Apprenticeship Novel
A biographical novel that deals with the
period of a young persons social and moral
initiation into adulthood.
Dickenss David Copperfield (1850)
Thomas Wolfes Look Homeward, Angel (1929)



2. Bildungsroman
A class of novel that deals with the maturation
process, with how and why the protagonist
develops, both morally and psychologically.
The German word Bildungsroman means
novel of education or novel of formation.



Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens,
Anne of Green Gables (1908) by Lucy Maud
Montgomery,
Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence,
Member of the Wedding (1946) by Carson
McCullers,
Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger,
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee,
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) by
Jeanette Winterson,
Black Swan Green (2006) by David Mitchell.

3. Dime Novel
Dime novels were a type of inexpensive,
usually paperback, melodramatic novel of
adventure popular in the United States
roughly between 1860 and 1915.


4. Epistolary Novel
a novel is told through the medium of letters
written by one or more of the characters

5. Gothic Novel
a form of European Romantic,
pseudomedieval fiction having a prevailing
atmosphere of mystery and terror.
its imaginative impulse was drawn from
medieval buildings and ruins, such novels
commonly used such settings as castles or
monasteries equipped with subterranean
passages, dark battlements, hidden panels,
and trapdoors


Horace Walpoles Castle of Otranto (1765)
Ann Radcliffe: Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
and Italian (1797)
Matthew Gregory Lewiss The Monk (1796)
William Beckfords Oriental romance Vathek
(1786)
Charles Robert Maturins story of an Irish
Faust, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
The classic horror stories Frankenstein (1818)
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker


6. Historical Novel
Any novel that has as its setting a period of
history and that attempts to convey the spirit,
manners, and social conditions of a past age
with realistic detail and fidelity (which is in
some cases only apparent fidelity) to historical
fact is considered to be a historical novel.
Sir Walter Scotts Waverley (1814)
Leo Tolstoys War and Peace (186569)



7. I Novel
The form or genre of 20th-century Japanese
literature that is characterized by self-
revealing narration, with the author usually as
the central character is known in English as
the I novel (in Japanese, watakushi shsetsu,
or shishsetsu).


8. Indianista Novel
The Brazilian literary genre of the 19
th
century
that idealizes the simple life of the South
American Indian and incorporates words of
indigenous peoples to name flora, fauna, and
customs.
O Guarani (1857) and Iracema (1865),
romantic tales of love between Indian and
white and of the conflict between the Indians
and their Portuguese conquerors.



9. New Novel
The New Novel (French nouveau roman), also
called (more broadly) the antinovel, is an
avant-garde novel of the mid-20
th
century that
marked a radical departure from the
conventions of the traditional novel in that it
ignores such elements as plot, dialogue, linear
narrative, and human interest.

10. Nonfiction Novel
The name nonfiction novel is applied to any
story of actual people and actual events told
with the dramatic techniques of a novel.
Truman Capotes In Cold Blood (1965)
John Herseys Hiroshima (1946)
Norman Mailers The Executioners Song
(1979)




11. Novel of Manners
A work of fiction that re-creates a social world,
conveying with finely detailed observation the
customs, values, and mores of a highly
developed and complex society.
the works of Jane Austen: deal with the
domestic affairs of English country gentry
families of the 19
th
century and ignore
elemental human passions and larger social
and political determinations


12. Novella
A short and well-structured narrative, often
realistic and satiric in tone, the novella influenced
the development of the short story and the novel
throughout Europe.
Originating in Italy during the Middle Ages, the
novella was based on local events that were
humorous, political, or amorous in nature.
The individual tales often were gathered into
collections along with anecdotes, legends, and
romantic tales.

13. Picaresque Novel
usually a first-person narrative, relating the
adventures of a rogue or low-born adventurer
(Spanish pcaro) as he drifts from place to
place and from one social milieu to another in
his effort to survive.

14. Psychological Novel
a work of fiction in which the thoughts,
feelings, and motivations of the characters are
of equal or greater interest than is the
external action of the narrative.

15. Roman Clef
The roman clef (a French phrase meaning
novel with a key) has the extraliterary
interest of portraying well known real people
more or less thinly disguised as fictional
characters.

16. Sentimental Novel
Broadly, any novel that exploits the readers
capacity for tenderness, compassion, or
sympathy to a disproportionate degree by
presenting a beclouded or unrealistic view of
its subject can be considered a sentimental
novel.

17. Social Problem Novel
A novel in which a prevailing social problem, such
as gender, race, or class prejudice, is dramatized
through its effect on the characters is sometimes
categorized as a social problem novel (though it
may be called a problem novel or a social novel).
The type emerged in Great Britain and the United
States in the mid-19
th
century.
An early example is Elizabeth Gaskells Ruth
(1853)

18. Stream of Consciousness
The narrative technique intended to render the
flow of myriad impressionsvisual, auditory,
physical, associative, and subliminalthat
impinge on the consciousness of an individual
and form part of his awareness along with the
trend of his rational thoughts is known as stream
of consciousness.
The term was first used by the psychologist
William James in The Principles of Psychology
(1890).

19. Western
A genre of storytelling (novels, short stories,
motion pictures, and television and radio shows)
set in the American West, usually in the period
from the 1850s to the end of the 19th century.
The western has as its setting the immense
plains, rugged tablelands, and mountain ranges
of the portion of the United States lying west of
the Mississippi River, in particular the Great Plains
and the Southwest.
James Fenimore Coopers The Prairie (1827)