Novel | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-27

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00:01:59 1 Defining the genre
00:05:12 2 History
00:05:21 2.1 Early novels
00:09:04 2.2 Medieval period 1100–1500
00:09:14 2.2.1 Chivalric Romances
00:11:02 2.2.2 The novella
00:11:58 2.3 Renaissance period: 1500–1700
00:13:30 2.3.1 Chapbooks
00:15:58 2.3.2 Heroic romances
00:17:09 2.3.3 Satirical romances
00:18:44 2.3.4 Histories
00:20:31 2.3.5 Cervantes and the modern novel
00:23:10 2.4 18th century novels
00:23:38 2.4.1 Philosophical novel
00:25:18 2.4.2 The romance genre in the 18th century
00:26:39 2.4.3 The sentimental novel
00:28:59 2.4.4 The social context of the 18th century novel
00:29:09 2.4.4.1 Changing cultural status
00:31:47 2.4.4.2 The acceptance of novels as literature
00:33:36 2.5 19th century novels
00:33:45 2.5.1 Romanticism
00:36:57 2.5.2 The Victorian period: 1837–1901
00:41:24 2.6 The 20th century and later
00:41:33 2.6.1 Modernism and post-modernism
00:45:48 2.7 Genre fiction



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A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book.
The entire genre has been seen as having "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in classical Greece and Rome, in medieval and early modern romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella. (Since the 18th century, the term "novella", or "novelle" in German, has been used in English and other European languages to describe a long short story or a short novel.)
Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji (1010) has sometimes been described as the world's first novel, but there is considerable debate over this — there were certainly long fictional works much earlier. Spread of printed books in China led to the appearance of classical Chinese novels by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Parallel European 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. Ian Watt, in The Rise of the Novel (1957), suggested that the modern novel was born in the early 18th century.
Walter Scott made a distinction between the novel, in which (as he saw it) "events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society" and the romance, which he defined as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents". However, many such romances, including the historical romances of Scott, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". This sort of romance is in turn different from the genre fiction love romance or romance novel. Other European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der Roman, il romanzo, en roman."