Period, Regional and Curiosity Prose

Prose genres named for an age, a region or a subject of curiosity, including the Augustan prose of eighteenth-century English letters, the classical paradoxography that collects marvels and strange natural phenomena, and the insha of classical Arabic and Persian letters and formal composition. A genre belongs here when its cited article defines it by a literary period, a regional tradition of writing or a collecting of wonders. It excludes the medieval and Byzantine genres and the nonfiction told with the techniques of fiction, which have their own groups.