English novel
Prose from England
A novel written in the English language, regardless of the author's nationality or the setting.
The term encompasses works from British, American, Australian, and other Anglophone literary traditions: The English novel developed distinctive conventions in the eighteenth century.
Distinguished from novels translated into English from other languages.
- George EliotPseudonymous Victorian novelist
- Jane AustenRegency-era English novelist
- marriage plotStory centered on courtship
- BildungsromanNovel of formative years
- Victorian eraBritain under its longest-reigning queen
Charles Dickens · E.M. Forster · Joseph Conrad · Daniel Defoe · picaresque · Romantic period · serialization · triple decker · Robinson Crusoe · social class · social satire · Middlemarch · Mary Shelley · Samuel Richardson · letter · Virginia Woolf · first person narrator · Thomas Hardy
- George EliotMiddlemarch
English novelFrench romance
Love story set in France
French novel · Russian novel · American novel · foreign literature
English novelEnglish poetry
Verse in Britain's tongue
English drama · lyric poem · epic poem · short story · play
English noveloral tradition
Culture passed by speech
folk tale · spoken word · stage play · radio drama · graphic novel