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
The psychological novel is apparently no modern invention after all.
From Time Magazine Archive
For several chapters, the best of the book, it seems that Storey intends to revive that abandoned form, the psychological novel.
From Time Magazine Archive
The psychological novel and the problem play deal with these truths.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert
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