His style has been judged to resemble the nineteenth-century realistic novel.

She was not sensitive enough to have died in childbirth like the women in nineteenth-century novels.

Production in book form soon followed and serialization was one of the main reasons that nineteenth-century novels were so long.

He was mired in the nineteenth-century novel, she thought affectionately.

Looking back now they might have been playing out the rôle of characters from some nineteenth-century romantic novel.

Compared with other nineteenth-century novels, Madame Bovary contains relatively little action.

She probably knows more about the nineteenth-century industrial novel than anyone else in the entire world.

I feel like the heroine in one of those gloomy nineteenth-century novels we used to have to read in high school.

She opened her book, a critical study of several nineteenth-century novels, and began reading.

More specifically, it was a model for the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novels called the contes philosophiques.