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 hero of a psychological novel is the man whose reactions are most important.
From Time Magazine Archive
An interest in the psychological novel, and in James as its exponent, led Edel to Paris in the 1920s.
From Time Magazine Archive
Considerable light is thrown on the contradictory and original character of the poet by his novel, A Hero of Our Days, the first psychological novel that appeared in Russia.
From An Outline of Russian Literature by Baring, Maurice
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