| 单词 | hill-top novel |
| 释义 | > as lemmashill-top novel hill-top novel n. the name given by Grant Allen to those of his novels in which he expressed his views on moral and social questions, especially views not generally acceptable to his contemporaries. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > other types of novel political novel1735 comic novel1787 epistolary1804 autobiographical novel1832 Robinsonade1837 roman1867 sea-book1867 roman à clef1882 roman expérimental1884 hill-top novel1895 saga1895 Bildungsroman1910 pulp fiction1931 American Gothic1938 Künstlerroman1941 suspense novel1952 nouveau roman1959 sword and sorcery1961 graphic novel1964 non-fiction novel1965 schlockbuster1966 dark fantasy1968 celebrity novel1969 swashbuckler1975 chick lit1988 splatterpunk1988 Aga saga1992 1895 G. Allen British Barbarians p. xi I propose in future to add the words, ‘A Hill-top Novel’, to every one of my stories which I write of my own accord, simply and solely for the sake of embodying and enforcing my own opinions. 1895 G. Allen British Barbarians p. xvi Why, once more, this particular name, ‘A Hill-top Novel’? For something like this reason. I am writing in my study on a heather-clad hill-top... Everything around is fresh and pure... But away below in the valley, as night draws on, a lurid glare..marks the spot where the great wen of London heaves and festers. 1896 Pearson's Mag. May 556/1 Latterly he [sc. Grant Allen] has doubled up his social philosophy with his fiction, producing what he calls ‘Hill Top’ novels. 1901 Sketch XXV. 256/2 The lady sports~woman is the Colonel's abomination; he regards her as a monstrous product of the divided skirt and the ‘Hill~top’ novel. < as lemmas |
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