Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [concepts in the arts and humanities]
5. [genres in literature and performing arts]
6. [genres for literature]

Narrower term/s

• Gothic novels
• bildungsromans
• penny dreadfuls
• yellowbacks
• epistolary novels

Anotations

Scope note:

Invented prose narratives of considerable length and a certain complexity that deal imaginatively with human experience through a connected sequence of events involving a group of persons in a specific setting.