Sentence:  Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers , who deal in extravagant horror , to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century , and in particular to the <WSD>stream-of-consciousness</WSD> novelists , Henry James and James Joyce among them . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy