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fashionable novel

literary subgenre

Also known as: “silver-fork” novel

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Related Topics:: novel; comedy of manners

fashionable novel, early 19th-century subgenre of the comedy of manners portraying the English upper class, usually by members of that class. One author particularly known for his fashionable novels was Theodore Hook.