historical novel

American  

noun

1. a novel within the genre of historical fiction.

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Etymology

Origin of historical novel

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

At the same moment, a newspaper asked me to review Zora Neale Hurston’s unfinished historical novel, “The Life of Herod the Great,” which I had first heard of while reading a Hurston biography in graduate school.

From The Wall Street Journal

The 1975 murder of Italian subversive film director Pier Paolo Pasolini forms the tortured heart of Laing’s first historical novel.

From Los Angeles Times

Based on the historical novel series “Ikusagami” by Shogo Imamura, the Meiji-era set “Last Samurai Standing” will involve 292 warriors assembled at a temple in Kyoto for a deadly game with a massive cash prize.

From Los Angeles Times

Morgan Jerkins has given us something magnificent in her second novel, “Zeal“: a sweeping historical novel that plants itself firmly in the present tense of American reckoning.

From Salon

But how she created the enthralling historical novel “The Great Mann” is a story that owes as much to Lurie’s ability to reinvent herself as it does to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” the iconic 20th century critique of the American dream, which provided a touchstone for the novel.

From Los Angeles Times