City mysteries are a nineteenth-century genre of popular novel in which characters explore the secret underworlds of cities and uncover corruption and exploitation.
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Place of Origin Notable ExampleThe Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall, by George Lippard 1 Defining TraitCharacters explore the secret underworlds of cities and uncover corruption and exploitation 1 Defining Trait Connections
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Source Eugène Sue (Wikipedia)
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Source City mysteries, Wikipedia
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1. City mysteries, Wikipedia
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The "mysteries" originated with the wildly successful serial novel The Mysteries of Paris (1842) by Eugene Sue, which had many imitators and lent the genre its name.
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The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall (1845) by George Lippard
Lead section, paragraph 1
City mysteries are a 19th-century genre of popular novel, in which characters explore the secret underworlds of cities and uncover corruption and exploitation.
Lead paragraph, defining sentence
City mysteries are a 19th-century genre of popular novel, in which characters explore the secret underworlds of cities and uncover corruption and exploitation.
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The "mysteries" originated with the wildly successful serial novel The Mysteries of Paris (1842) by Eugène Sue, which had many imitators and lent the genre its name.
In Group: Detective and Crime Fiction Subgenres, Lead
a 19th-century genre of popular novel, in which characters explore the secret underworlds of cities and uncover corruption and exploitation
Subgenre Of: The Novel, Lead paragraph
genre of popular novel
View the SourceEugène Sue (Wikipedia)
Features Author: Eugène Sue, Literary careerQuote, Features Author: Eugène Sue, Literary career
Les Mystères de Paris spawned a class of imitations all over the world, the city mysteries.
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