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- Title
The Season Novel, 1806-1824: A Nineteenth-Century Microgenre.
- Authors
Stevens, Anne H.
- Abstract
This essay examines a set of two dozen or so novels published between 1806 and 1824 that, taken together, constitute a microgenre or highly specific subgenre, the 'season novel'. From A Winter in London (1806) to A Winter in Washington (1824), season novels depict fashionable life in a particular locale for a limited span of time. The essay uses these texts as a case study to examine the processes of generic creation and extinction at close range, looking at the interplay of imitation and variation that helps propel artistic creation, the role of reviewers, and circulating library data.
- Subjects
19TH century English literature; ARTISTIC creation
- Publication
Victoriographies, 2017, Vol 7, Issue 2, p81
- ISSN
2044-2416
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/vic.2017.0265