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This is a study of a group of novels depicting fashionable life in the early nineteenth century, and also a study of the way genres arise, flourish, and fade away, using the twenty-first century concept of the "microgenre" as a lens.
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Why is it important?
Very few scholars have applied the concept of microgenres, or highly specialized cultural phenomena, to earlier periods of literary history.
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This page is a summary of: The Season Novel, 1806–1824: A Nineteenth-Century Microgenre, Victoriographies, July 2017, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/vic.2017.0265.
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