Roman documentaire is a form of fiction that was invented by the Goncourt brothers, Edmond (1822-96) and Jules (1830-70), in the 1860s. The brothers, in collaboration, set out to write…
What is a Novel of Sensation?
The novel of sensation is a distinctive genre of Victorian fiction that emerged around the 1860s. It combines elements of Gothic fiction, melodrama, and domestic…
Historical fiction is a form of fictional narrative that reconstructs history and imaginatively recreates it. Both historical and fictional characters may appear. Though writing fiction, the good historical novelist researches…
Far From the Madding Crowd is a phrase that occurs in Thomas Gray‘s Elegy written in the Country Churchyard. This Elegy pays a tribute to humble and homely ancestors of village-people, who…
“Sons and Lovers” is “A Portrait of the Artist as a Youngman” by D.H.Lawrence. In it, he transmutes autobiography into objective fiction and organizes his accounts of a potential artist…
William Morel is the eldest son of Gertrude and Walter Morel in D.H. Lawrence's novel “Sons and Lovers”. He was just seven when he was first introduced to us. He…
The reflexive novel is a novel in which the author calls the reader’s attention to the fact that he or she is writing (or has written) a novel. Thus, what…