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SOCIAL and POLITICAL NOVEL TYPES 

Though certain types of novels such as "psychological" novels and bildungsromans may most commonly focus on private rather than social or public realms of life, to some extent every novel is a social--or political--novel. Novels that are intensively focused on social forces and public domains appear in many types and are known by many names. It is impossible to classify absolutely any particular novel as a single type, since virtually all novels and works of literature contain a variety of categorical features; nevertheless, classifications and descriptions are useful for thinking about particular works, even if precise definitions of many classifications are not universally or even widely agreed upon.


Some types and names:


political novel
governmental novel

tendentious novel

tendenzroman

roman à these
thesis novel

didactic novel

ideological novel

novel with a purpose

authoritarian novel

committed novel

novel of engagement

littérature engagée

engagé novel


 

    proletarian novel

Marxist novel

materialist novel
radical novel
allegorical novel

revolutionary novel

anti-war novel

futuristic novel

speculative novel

utopian novel

dystopian novel

culturally critical novel

problem novel

propaganda novel

    realistic novel

naturalistic novel

picaresque

novel of ideas
protest novel

historical novel

socialist novel

anarchist novel

social protest novel
social mystery/crime novel

social satire

social morality novel

social philosophy novel
etc...

   
 
   
     
     

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