NOVEL
- comes from the Italian "novella" (the best are Boccaccio's tales).
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The Gothic Novel -is characterized by images of dark castles and unspeakable evil lurking in the hearts of men.
Gothic – taken from the period of architecture where building were built largely capitalize on the immense power of divinity.
Examples of gothic novel The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole Vathek by William Beckford Frankenstein by Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Romance Novel
- is one of the most
wide-read forms of the novel. Roman – originally meant the Graeco-Roman classics
Example of Romance novel Look of love by Jennifer McKnight-Tronsts
The Historical Novel was a venue for people to realize the importance of history in the development of civilization. -
Examples of Historical Novel Waverley Rob Roy Ivanhoe The Hunchback of Notre Dame by: Sir Walter Scott