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We can make this file beautiful and searchable if this error is corrected: It looks like row 2 should actually have 1 column, instead of 2. in line 1.
genre name start year end year duration source source pub year
Courtship Novel 1740 1820 81 Green, The Courtship Novel 1740-1820 1991
Picaresque 1748 1790 43 Chandler, The Literature of Roguery 1907
Oriental Tale 1759 1787 29 Baker, The History of the English Novel 1924
Epistolary Novel 1766 1795 30 Raven in The English Novel, vol. I 2000
Sentimental Novel 1768 1790 23 Mullan in The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1996
Spy' Novel 1770 1800 31 Flint in PMLA 113 (2) 1998
Ramble Novel 1773 1790 18 Dickie, The Mid-Century 'Ramble' Novels 2000
Jacobin Novel 1789 1805 17 Kelly, The English Jacobin Novel 1780-1805 1967
Gothic Novel 1790 1820 31 Garside in The English Novel, vol. II 2000
Anti-Jacobin Novel 1791 1805 15 Grenby, The Anti-Jacobin Novel 2001
National Tale 1800 1831 32 Trumpener in The Encyclopedia of the Novel, vol. II 1998
Village Stories 1804 1832 29 Kelly, English Fiction of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830 1989
Evangelical Novel 1808 1819 12 Garside in The English Novel, vol. II 2000
Historical Novel 1814 1848 35 Rance, The Historical Novel and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century England 1975
Romantic Farrago 1822 1847 26 Kelly, English Fiction of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830 1989
Silver-Fork Novel 1825 1842 18 Adburgham, Silver Fork Society 1983
Military Novel 1826 1850 25 Garside in The English Novel 2000
Nautical Tales 1828 1850 23 Wheeler, English Fiction of the Victorian Period 1985
Newgate Novel 1830 1847 18 Hollingsworth, The Newgate Novel 1963
Conversion Novel 1830 1853 24 Gracombe, Anxieties of Influence 2003
Industrial Novel 1832 1867 36 Gallagher, The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction 1985
Sporting Novel 1838 1867 30 Sutherland in The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature 1989
Chartist Novel 1839 1852 14 Klaus, The Literature of Labour 1985
Mysteries 1846 1870 25 Maxwell, The Mysteries of Paris and London 1992
Multiplot Novel 1846 1872 27 Benford, The Multiplot Novel and Victorian Culture 2003
Bildungsroman 1847 1872 26 Minden in The Encyclopedia of the Novel, vol. II 1998
Religious Novel 1848 1856 9 Wheeler, English Fiction of the Victorian Period 1985
Domestic Novel 1849 1872 24 Sutherland, Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature 1989
Provincial Novel 1850 1873 24 Duncan in A Companion to the Victorian Novel 2003
Sensation Novel 1850 1876 27 Rance, Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists 1991
Fantasy 1850 1895 46 Manlove, Modern Fantasy 1975
Children's Adventures 1851 1883 33 Sutherland, Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature 1989
School Stories 1857 1881 25 Quigly, The Heirs of Tom Brown 1982
Imperial Romances 1868 1902 35 Bristow, Empire Boys 1991
Invasion Literature 1871 1914 44 Clarke, The Tale of the Next Great War 1995
Utopia 1872 1901 30 Wheeler, English Fiction of the Victorian Period 1985
Cockney School 1872 1897 26 Sutherland in The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature 1985
Regional Novel 1873 1896 24 Duncan, 'The Provincial or Regional Novel' 2002
Nursery Stories 1876 1906 31 Avery, Nineteenth Century Children 1965
Decadent Novel 1884 1906 23 Mandal in The Encyclopedia of the Novel, vol. I 1998
Naturalist Novel 1885 1915 31 Frierson, L'influence du naturalisme français sur les romanciers anglais de 1885 à 1900 1925
Imperial Gothic 1885 1916 32 Brantlinger, Rule of Darkness 1988
New Woman Novel 1888 1899 12 Ardis, New Women, New Novels 1990
Kailyard School 1888 1900 13 Sutherland in The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature 1989
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