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Search for books within this categoryA novel (from the Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new", "news", or "short story of something new") is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century. The further definition of the genre is historically difficult. Criteria such as artistic merit, fictionality, a design to create an epic totality of life, a focus on history and the individual are essentially arbitrary and designed to raise further debates over qualities that will supposedly separate great works of literature from a wider and lower "trivial" production. Many of the sub-criteria reach back into a debate the 16th and 17th centuries began in order to redefine the status of public histories. A new field of literature was eventually defined in the course of the 18th century to give works of "literary" merits, works of "art" a place of their own right—a place they defend with a focus on the individual and more individualistic narratives. The personal memoir and autobiography have been less affected by the differentiation. Novels can be immensely personal neighbouring genres. The history of literature, uniting works of art, is the context in which new novels have to defend their position since the 19th century. Feminist Novels
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