Home›Historical Fiction and Romance›GenreBrowse ByGenreGenre 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.FactsGenreSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1800 1GenreFilter Results17 entriesAuthorAllAbdullah Hussain (1)Alejo Carpentier (2)Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1)Alessandro Manzoni (1)Alex Haley (1)Alexander Fadeyev (2)Alexandre Dumas (1)Anna Lee Waldo (2)Anthony Hope (2)Arundhati Roy (1)Bao Ninh (1)Bernard Malamud (1)Boris Pasternak (2)Carlos Fuentes (1)Charles Dickens (1)Colleen McCullough (1)Dustin Thao (2)Eiji Yoshikawa (1)Emilio Salgari (1)Emily Brontë (2)Feng Menglong (2)Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1)Gustave Flaubert (1)Helen Dale (1)Henryk Sienkiewicz (1)Hilary Mantel (1)James Clavell (1)James Fenimore Cooper (1)Jamie McGuire (1)Jane Austen (1)Jean Rhys (1)John Lyly (1)John Rollin Ridge (1)Kim Man-jung (1)Lew Wallace (1)Linda Grant (1)Luo Guangbin (1)Luo Guanzhong (1)M. L. Stedman (1)Magda Szabó (1)Margaret Mitchell (1)Marguerite Yourcenar (1)Mikhail Sholokhov (1)Nathaniel Hawthorne (2)Orhan Pamuk (1)Pope Pius II (1)Rafael Sabatini (1)Robert Graves (1)Shi Yukun (3)Sigrid Undset (1)Susan Sontag (1)Thomas Malory (3)Umberto Eco (1)Uri Orlev (2)Wallace Stegner (1)Walter Scott (3)Yang Mo (1)Yang Yiyan (1)Composition YearAll1240 (1)1270 (1)1315 (1)1444 (1)1485 (3)1578 (1)1689 (1)1694 (1)1796 (1)1813 (1)1817 (2)1819 (2)1821 (1)1824 (1)1826 (1)1827 (1)1844 (1)1847 (2)1850 (2)1854 (1)1859 (1)1862 (1)1880 (1)1883 (2)1884 (1)1886 (1)1889 (3)1894 (2)1895 (2)1896 (1)1898 (1)1900 (1)1901 (1)1904 (1)1920 (1)1922 (1)1925 (1)1928 (1)1934 (1)1935 (1)1936 (1)1946 (2)1949 (2)1951 (1)1954 (1)1957 (2)1958 (1)1961 (1)1962 (1)1963 (1)1966 (1)1970 (1)1971 (1)1975 (1)1976 (1)1978 (2)1980 (1)1981 (2)1987 (1)1990 (1)1994 (1)1997 (1)1998 (1)1999 (1)2000 (1)2009 (1)2011 (1)2012 (1)2021 (2)Original LanguageAllBulgarian (4)English (11)French (2)Hebrew (2)Hungarian (1)Icelandic (1)Italian (2)Japanese (2)Korean (2)Latin (1)Norwegian (1)Polish (1)Romanian (3)Russian (2)Sinitic (4)Spanish (2)Turkish (1)Urdu (1)Vietnamese (1)Country of OriginAllAustralia (1)Australia (1)Chile (2)China (2)England (1)France (2)Hungary (1)Iceland (1)India (1)Israel (2)Italy (2)Japan (2)Kingdom of England (3)Mexico (1)Norway (1)Pakistan (1)Poland (1)Qing dynasty (3)Russia (3)South Korea (2)Soviet Union (1)Turkey (1)United Kingdom (8)United States (3)Vietnam (1)AudienceAllAdult (1)Children's (9)General (10)Young Adult (2)AwardAllBancarella Literary Prize (2)Booker Prize (2)Dublin Literary Award (1)Indie Book Award (Book of the Year) (1)Indie Book Award (Debut Fiction) (1)James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1)Miles Franklin Award (1)National Book Award for Fiction (1)Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2)Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards (1)Stalin Prize (1)Strega Prize (2)Vietnamese Writers' Association Award (1)WH Smith Literary Award (1)Women's Prize for Fiction (1)Setting Country or PlaceAllAustralia (1)Carthage (1)China (1)Chongqing (1)Duchy of Milan (1)England (2)France (1)Haiti (2)Hungary (1)Iceland (1)Italy (1)Jamaica (1)London (1)Massachusetts (2)Paris (1)Rome (1)Sicily (1)Siena (1)Song dynasty (3)Tang dynasty (1)The Caribbean (1)Ukraine (2)Defining TraitAllCharacter Focus (1)Form and Technique (3)Intended Readership (1)Mood and Effect (3)Setting and World (4)Subject Matter (3)Origin YearAll1764 (1)1930 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAdventure FictionGenre1 entryChildren LiteratureGenre1 entryChivalric RomanceGenre2 entriesEpicGenre1 entryGong'an FictionGenre1 entryGothic FictionGenre1 entryHistorical FantasyGenre1 entryHistorical FictionGenre31 entriesMagic RealismGenre1 entryThe NovelGenre34 entriesRomanceGenre5 entriesRuritanian RomanceGenre1 entrySagaGenre1 entrySword and SorceryGenre1 entryTragedyGenre1 entryWuxiaGenre1 entryYoung Adult FictionGenre1 entrySources1. Historical fiction (Wikipedia)Historical fiction, lead section, early-19th-century foundations sentenceQuote, Historical fiction, lead section, early-19th-century foundations sentenceHistorical fiction as a contemporary Western literary genre has its foundations in the early-19th-century works of Sir Walter Scott and his contemporaries in other national literatures such as the Frenchman Honore de Balzac, the American James Fenimore Cooper, and later the Russian Leo Tolstoy.Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.