Question

Explain what is meant by the following types of novels. 

1. Epistolary novel 

2. Serialized novel 

For each type, name one writer who wrote in that style.

Answer 1

Epistolary novels were written in the form of a series of letters. It used a private and personal form of letters to tell its story. Samuel Richardson wrote in this style.

Serialized novels followed a format in which the story was published in installments, each part in a new issue of a journal. Charles Dicken’s Pickwick Papers written in 1836 was a serialized novel.