psychological novel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of psychological novel
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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The psychological novel gained prominence as the 19th-century world became mapped and colonized, the mind offering a new realm for discovery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
In a sense, she’s a person who always has a psychological novel going on inside her head, and where would the psychological novel be without Dostoyevsky?
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 16, 2017
Another depressing, well-written psychological novel by a morbid author of the introspective school.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Schmitt has chosen to tell it not as a historical or Biblical but a psychological novel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lyly's work does not exhibit quite such modernity as this, but we may truthfully say that his Euphues and his England is the psychological novel in germ.
From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover
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