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psychological novel

noun

  1. a novel that focuses on the complex mental and emotional lives of its characters and explores the various levels of mental activity.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of psychological novel1

First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences

(d) A.'s general perception of these things and his weighing of values, a phase solely for the psychological novel.

We may in fact find in this domestic group an anticipation of the spirit of the modern psychological novel.

We can hardly imagine George Eliot writing in the first person: the “psychological novel” demands the third.

His other important novels are Ion, dealing with peasant life, and Ciuleandra, a psychological novel.

But in the modern psychological novel the hero is abnormal; the centre is not central.

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