Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the Italian: novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the Latin: novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels.
- Comment
- enA novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the Italian: novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the Latin: novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels.
- Depiction
.jpg)
- DifferentFrom
- Novell
- Has abstract
- enA novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the Italian: novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the Latin: novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some, including M. H. Abrams and Walter Scott, have argued that a novel is a fiction narrative that displays a realistic depiction of the state of a society, while the romance encompasses any fictitious narrative that emphasizes marvellous or uncommon incidents. Works of fiction that include marvellous or uncommon incidents are also novels, including The Lord of the Rings, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Frankenstein. "Romances" are works of fiction whose main emphasis is on marvellous or unusual incidents, and should not be confused with the romance novel, a type of genre fiction that focuses on romantic love. Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, an early 11th-century Japanese text, has sometimes been described as the world's first novel based on its early use of the experience of intimacy in a narrative form, but there is considerable debate over this — there were certainly long fictional prose works that preceded it. Spread of printed books in China led to the appearance of classical Chinese novels by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and Qing dynasty (1616-1911). An early example from Europe was written in Muslim Spain by the Sufi writer Ibn Tufayl entitled Hayy ibn Yaqdhan. Later developments occurred after the invention of the printing press. Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote (the first part of which was published in 1605), is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era. Literary historian Ian Watt, in The Rise of the Novel (1957), argued that the modern novel was born in the early 18th century. Recent technological developments have led to many novels also being published in non-print media: this includes audio books, web novels, and ebooks. Another non-traditional fiction format can be found in some graphic novels. While these comic book versions of works of fiction have their origins in the 19th century, they have only become popular more recently.
- Homepage
- www.britannica.com
- Hypernym
- Narrative
- Is primary topic of
- Novel
- Label
- enNovel
- Link from a Wikipage to an external page
- archive.org/details/houseofsevengabl00hawt/page/n9/mode/2up
- books.google.com/books%3Fid=JKZztxqdIpgC
- ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https:/www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/100-greatest-novels-time/
- www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/100-greatest-novels-time/
- www.britannica.com/art/novel
- archive.org/details/novelnowstudents0000burg%7Curl-access
- archive.org/details/originsofenglish0000mcke%7Curl-access
- www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/themes/the-novel-1780-to-1832
- www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/themes/the-novel-1832-to-1880
- archive.org/details/truestoryofnovel0000dood
- Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
- Adventure
- Adventure novel
- Aeneid
- Aesop
- Aestheticism
- Age of Enlightenment
- A Hero of Our Time
- Alain-René Lesage
- Albert Camus
- Aldous Huxley
- Alessandro Manzoni
- Alexander Pushkin
- Alexander Romance
- Alfred Döblin
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Almanac
- Amadis
- Amadis de Gaula
- Anaïs Nin
- Ancient Greek novel
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Anglo-Norman language
- Angst
- Anne Brontë
- Anne Desclos
- Anne-Marguerite Petit du Noyer
- Ann Radcliffe
- Aphra Behn
- Apuleius
- Art for art's sake
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Arthurian literature
- Arthurian romance
- A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
- A True Story
- Audio book
- Audio books
- Aurora Leigh
- Bakhtin
- Banabhatta
- Ban Gu
- Belknap Press
- Belles lettres
- Beowulf
- Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Bibliothèque bleue
- Black Death
- Book
- Brave New World
- Brontë sisters
- Bucolic
- Burlesque
- Burlesque (literature)
- Byzantine novel
- Callirhoe (novel)
- Candide
- Canterbury Tales
- Carlos Fuentes
- Catch-22
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Fiction forms
- Category:Literary terminology
- Category:Media formats
- Category:Novels
- Category:Prose
- César Vichard de Saint-Réal
- Chain novel
- Chanson de geste
- Chapbook
- Chapbooks
- Chariton
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens
- Charlotte Brontë
- Child labor
- Children's literature
- Chivalric romance
- Chivalrous
- Chrétien de Troyes
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Circulating library
- Classic book
- Classics
- Cold War
- Collage novel
- Comic book
- Confucius
- Consumerism
- Counterculture
- Counterculture of the 1960s
- Courtly love
- Crime and Punishment
- Crime fiction
- D.H. Lawrence
- Dan Brown
- Daṇḍin
- Daniel Defoe
- Daśakumāracarita
- Decameron
- Delta of Venus
- Denis Diderot
- Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus
- Desire (emotion)
- Die Elixiere des Teufels
- Don Juan (Byron)
- Don Quixote
- Doris Lessing
- Dorothy Richardson
- E.T.A. Hoffmann
- Early modern Europe
- Early Modern Europe
- Early modern period
- Ebook
- Ebooks
- Edda
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edward Bellamy
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Eliza Haywood
- Émile Zola
- Emily Brontë
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- English language
- Ephemera
- Epic (genre)
- Epic poetry
- Epistolary novel
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Eugene Onegin
- Eustathios Makrembolites
- Exemplum
- Experimental novel
- Expressionist
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Fabliaux
- Fairy tale
- Fanny Hill
- Fantasy
- Fantasy literature
- Feminism
- Femme fatale
- Fiction
- Fight Club (novel)
- File:1474 Melusine Ausgabe Augsburg Johann Bämler Blatt 2.png
- File:1711 The Court and City Vagaries.jpg
- File:1719-heathcot-robinson-crusoe.png
- File:1769 Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy v6 p70.jpg
- File:Chaucer Troilus frontispiece.jpg
- File:Chinua Achebe - Buffalo 25Sep2008.jpg
- File:Dan Brown bookjacket cropped.jpg
- File:Evstafiev-solzhenitsyn.jpg
- File:J. K. Rowling 2010.jpg
- File:Madame de Pompadour.jpg
- File:Richard Head 1666.png
- File:Richardson pamela 1741.jpg
- File:Seitseman veljekset.jpg
- File:Tosa Mitsuoki—Portrait of Murasaki Shikibu.jpg
- File:UncleTomsCabinCover.jpg
- File:Walter Scott Waverley illustration (Pettie-Huth).jpg
- Florence
- Folklore
- Foucault's Pendulum
- Four Great Classical Novels
- Francisco de Quevedo
- François Fénelon
- François Rabelais
- Frankenstein
- Friedrich Engels
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras
- Gay literature
- Gender identity
- Genre fiction
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- George Eliot
- George Orwell
- German language
- Gil Blas
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Goethe
- Gothic fiction
- Gothic novel
- Gothic romance
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Graphic novel
- Gravity's Rainbow
- Great Depression
- Grotesque
- Günter Grass
- György Lukács
- H.G. Wells
- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
- Harold Bloom
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
- Hedonistic
- Heinrich Wittenwiler
- Heliodorus of Emesa
- Henry Fielding
- Henry Mackenzie
- Henry Miller
- Herman Melville
- Hermann Hesse
- Hero
- High Middle Ages
- Historical novel
- Historical romance
- Historiography
- History of copyright law
- Hồ Nguyên Trừng
- Honore d'Urfe
- Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar novel)
- Horace Walpole
- Horror fiction
- Hữu Mai
- Ian Fleming
- Ian Watt
- Ibn al-Nafis
- Ibn Tufail
- Industrialization
- Inspirational literature
- Interior monologue
- Intertextuality
- Irony
- Isaac Asimov
- Italian language
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Jacques the Fatalist
- James Bond
- James Joyce
- Jane Barker
- Jane Eyre
- Jazz Age
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Cleland
- John Cowper Powys
- John Locke
- John Steinbeck
- John Updike
- Joseph Andrews
- Joseph Conrad
- Joseph Heller
- Jules Verne
- Julio Cortázar
- Kadambari
- Karl Marx
- Ken Kesey
- Kent State University Press
- King Arthur
- Knight-errant
- L'Astrée
- Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Lancelot-Grail
- La Princesse de Clèves
- Latin American Boom
- Laurence Sterne
- Lazarillo de Tormes
- Leah Price
- Legend
- Le Morte d'Arthur
- Leo Tolstoy
- Les Liaisons dangereuses
- Les Misérables
- Les Particules élémentaires
- Light novel
- Literary critics
- Literature
- Lolita
- Looking Backward
- Lord Byron
- Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
- Lucian
- Lu Xun
- M. H. Abrams
- Madame d'Aulnoy
- Madame de La Fayette
- Madeleine de Scudéry
- Magic realism
- Malone Dies
- Manga
- Marcel Proust
- Margaret Atwood
- Margaret Doody
- Marie de La Fayette
- Marin le Roy de Gomberville
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Marquis de Sade
- Mary Shelley
- Maryville University
- Mateo Alemán
- Matthew Gregory Lewis
- Matthew Lewis (writer)
- Medievalism
- Memoir
- Memoirs of the Twentieth Century
- Mercure Gallant
- Michael Schmidt (poet)
- Michel Houellebecq
- Micromégas
- Middle Ages
- Middle English
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
- Ming dynasty
- MIT Press
- Moby-Dick
- Modern era
- Modernists
- Molloy (novel)
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Muslim Spain
- Mystery fiction
- Nam Ông mộng lục
- Narrative
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Nationalist
- Nausea (novel)
- Nautical fiction
- Neuromancer
- Nhất Linh
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Novelas ejemplares
- Novel in Scotland
- Novelist
- Novella
- Novelle
- Nursery rhyme
- Occitan language
- Odyssey
- Old French
- Oliver Goldsmith
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)
- Onegin stanza
- Ông cố vấn
- Oscar Wilde
- Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
- Pamphlet
- Pastoral
- Patricia Highsmith
- Paul Auster
- Paul Scarron
- Petronius
- Petronius Arbiter
- Philip K Dick
- Philosophical novel
- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Pierre Daniel Huet
- Pinyin
- Plato
- Poetry
- Popular fiction
- Popular literature
- Popular prints
- Pornography
- Postmodern
- Postmodernism
- Poststructuralism
- Printing
- Printing press
- Proletarian novel
- Prose
- Psychological novel
- Psychological thriller
- Pulp magazine
- Qing dynasty
- Quest
- Realism (arts)
- Republic (Plato)
- Richard Head
- Robert Coover
- Robinson Crusoe
- Role-playing game
- Roman à clef
- Romance (literary fiction)
- Romance fiction
- Romance languages
- Romance novel
- Roman novel
- Romanticism
- Romantic literature
- Samuel Beckett
- Samuel Madden
- Samuel Richardson
- Satire
- Satyricon
- Scandinavia
- School
- Science fiction
- Sentimental novel
- Serial (literature)
- Sexual revolution
- Sherlock Holmes
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Sir John Mandeville
- Social class
- Social novel
- Sociology of literature
- Song Dynasty
- Spread of the printing press
- Spy fiction
- Stanisław Lem
- Steppenwolf (novel)
- Story of O
- Stream of consciousness (narrative mode)
- Subandhu
- Subculture
- Sufi
- Surrealism
- Surveillance
- Tale of Genji
- Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
- Tatler (1709)
- The 120 Days of Sodom
- The Betrothed (Manzoni novel)
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
- The Canterbury Tales
- The Castle of Otranto
- The City of the Sun
- The Crying of Lot 49
- The death of the novel
- The Golden Ass
- The Golden Gate (Vikram Seth novel)
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
- The Last Man
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Mists of Avalon
- The Monk
- The Mysteries of Udolpho
- The Name of the Rose
- The New York Trilogy
- Theologus Autodidactus
- Theory of evolution
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- The Spectator (1711)
- The Stranger (Camus novel)
- The Tale of Genji
- The Tale of Kiều
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- The Time Machine
- The Tin Drum
- The Unnamable (novel)
- The Vicar of Wakefield
- Thomas Hardy
- Thomas Malory
- Thomas More
- Thomas Pynchon
- Till Eulenspiegel
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Tolkien
- Tommaso Campanella
- Totalitarianism
- Tract (literature)
- Traitté de l'origine des romans
- Trần Chánh Chiếu
- Travel literature
- Tropic of Cancer (novel)
- Ulysses (novel)
- Umberto Eco
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Ursula le Guin
- Utopia
- Utopia (book)
- Vasavadatta
- Verse (poetry)
- Victor Hugo
- Vikram Seth
- Virginia Woolf
- Virtual reality
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Volksbuch
- Voltaire
- Walter Scott
- War and Peace
- War novel
- Waverley (novel)
- Waverley novels
- Web fiction
- Web novel
- Web novels in South Korea
- Western canon
- William Caxton
- William Faulkner
- William Gibson
- William James
- Woodcut
- Workhouses
- Working class
- World War I
- World War II
- Wuthering Heights
- Yorick
- Young adult fiction
- Zadig
- Zhuang Zhou
- SameAs
- 4050479-7
- 4nSPK
- Eleberri
- Kawsay rikch'a
- m.05hgj
- Mythistoria
- Nobela
- Nobela
- Nobhail
- Nofel
- Novel
- Novel
- Novel
- Novel
- Novèl
- Novel·la
- Novela
- Novela
- Novela
- Novela
- Novelle
- Powieść
- Q59126
- Q8261
- Regény
- Riwaya
- Romaan
- Romaani
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Roman
- Román
- Román
- Roman (literatură)
- Roman (literatuur)
- Roman (littérature)
- Roman (wêje)
- Romanas
- Romance
- Romani
- Romano
- Romano
- Romāns
- Romant
- Romanz (literatura)
- Romanzo
- Rumanzu
- Skáldsaga
- Skaldsøga
- Sugilambong
- Tiểu thuyết
- Úrscéal
- Woman
- Μυθιστόρημα
- Арамаан
- Раман
- Роман
- Роман
- Роман
- Роман
- Роман
- Роман
- Роман
- Роман
- Роман
- Роман
- Роман
- Роман
- Тууж
- Վեպ
- ראמאן
- רומן
- رمان
- رمان
- رواية (أدب)
- روايه
- رومان
- ناول
- ناول
- ڕۆمان
- उपन्यास
- उपन्यास
- कादंबरी
- উপন্যাস
- ਨਾਵਲ
- નવલકથા
- புதினம் (இலக்கியம்)
- నవలా సాహిత్యము
- ಕಾದಂಬರಿ
- നോവൽ
- නවකතාව
- นวนิยาย
- ဝတ္ထု
- რომანი
- 小説
- 小说
- 長篇小說
- 長編小説
- 소설
- 장편 소설
- SeeAlso
- Ancient Greek novel
- Cell phone novel
- Modernism
- Newgate novel
- Picaresque novel
- Sensation novel
- Thriller (genre)
- Subject
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Fiction forms
- Category:Literary terminology
- Category:Media formats
- Category:Novels
- Category:Prose
- Thumbnail
- WasDerivedFrom
- Novel?oldid=1124624772&ns=0
- WikiPageLength
- 91987
- Wikipage page ID
- 23713433
- Wikipage revision ID
- 1124624772
- WikiPageUsesTemplate
- Template:Authority control
- Template:Books
- Template:Cbignore
- Template:Citation needed
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite EB1911
- Template:Cite news
- Template:Cite web
- Template:Distinguish
- Template:Div col
- Template:Div col end
- Template:Fiction writing
- Template:ISBN
- Template:Literature
- Template:Main
- Template:More citations needed
- Template:More citations needed section
- Template:Other uses
- Template:Portal
- Template:Primary source inline
- Template:Refbegin
- Template:Refend
- Template:Reflist
- Template:See also
- Template:Short description
- Template:When
- Template:Wikiquote
