Genre sorts a literary work by the kind of story it tells. Wikipedia describes Pride and Prejudice as "a novel of manners" following Elizabeth Bennet's "character development," a genre built around social behavior rather than adventure or the supernatural. This dimension groups works that tell the same broad kind of story.
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1. Detective fiction (Wikipedia)
Detective fiction, lead section, genre origin sentenceQuote, Detective fiction, lead section, genre origin sentence
The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular, particularly in novels.
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