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Definition of Novelism
1. n. Innovation.
Definition of Novelism
1. Noun. (uncountable literature) The dominance of the novel as a literary form. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) innovation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Novelism
1. innovation [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Novelism
Literary usage of Novelism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1853)
"What the merely descriptive side of the new school of novelism is gaining over
the old by its philosophy is a more accurate portrayal of human nature as it ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1847)
"In reprobating this detestable school, we certainly have no hope that our remarks
will reform the French novelism of the day ; but we call on the critical ..."
3. European Dramatists by Archibald Henderson (1913)
"He scorned the field of popular novelism, not only because it was too ridiculously
easy, but also because to meet the requirements of the sentimental public ..."
4. Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton (1909)
"Of the suggestive prurience of much modern novelism, whether French or French-derived,
he, Fielding, is quite free: he deals with the sensual relations with ..."
5. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"Protestant doctrine asserted against the Papists ; and wonders at the confidence
of the men, who tell us against our own eyes, that it is a novelism. ..."
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