A novel is a long, fictional narrative. The novel in the modern era usually makes use of a literary prose style. The development of the … See more

The European developments of the novel did not occur until after the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg around 1439, and … See more

The modern distinction between history and fiction did not exist in the early sixteenth century and the grossest improbabilities … See more

Romanticism
The very word romanticism is connected to the idea of romance, and the romance genre experienced a … See more

The earliest novels include classical Greek and Latin prose narratives from the first century BC to the second century AD, such as See more

The idea of the "rise of the novel" in the 18th century is especially associated with Ian Watt's influential study The Rise of the Novel (1957). In … See more

Modernism and post-modernism
James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) had a major influence on modern novelists, in the way that it replaced … See more