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silver fork novel en · NOUN

Etymology

Coined by English essayist and writer William Hazlitt in 1827.

Meanings

1. A 19th-century genre of English literature that depicted the lives of the upper class and the aristocracy.
   • In addition, the chapter also explores the influence of the London Season on the content and form of the silver fork novel. One common critique of the silver fork novel was that the genre was formulaic and, thus, easily produced by any hack writer who might put pen to paper. 2015, Cheryl A. Wilson, Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22:

Forms

Relateds

silver spoon

Synonyms

fashionable novel