All The Novel and Its Forms

The novel as a genre and its principal structural variants: the coming-of-age bildungsroman, the episodic picaresque novel, and historical fiction's setting of invented character in a real past. Belongs here: a genre defined as a variety of the modern novel. Does not belong here: a genre of shorter prose fiction, tracked under the short, lyric and nonfiction group below, or a genre defined by speculative content rather than novelistic structure, tracked under speculative and fantastic fiction.