Psychological novel

The psychological novel is a type of novel supposed to have originated with Giovanni Boccaccio in 1344 CE, in La Fiammetta.

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Novel - Giovanni Boccaccio - 1344

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Other examples are Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel Cervantes and Pamela by Samuel Richardson.

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Don Quixote - Miguel Cervantes - Samuel Richardson

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Prose Fiction which places more than the usual amount of emphasis on interior characterization, and on the motives, circumstances, an internal action which springs from, and develops, external action. The psychological novel is not content to state what happens but goes on to explain the why and the wherefore of this action. In this type of writing character and characterization are more than usually important.

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