The novel as we know it emerged in the 18th century. Notable examples include works by authors like Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Jane Austen.
If it is a fictional town, how on earth would anyone know if it didn't appear in a novel?
Yes the American Novel did begin to develop in the eighteenth century.
The novel that began with William Dean Howells in the nineteenth century and had been further developed in this century is Years of My Youth.
The word "mouse" would not appear on the page, as it falls alphabetically between "novel" and "nucleus."
In the novel "The Murder in the Vicarage".
Oliver Twist
Germans don't appear in the historical literature in the 5th Century BCE so we don't know. They featured a people on the move who threatened Rome in the late 2nd Century BCE.
yes
11 century
William Shakespeare did not write novels.The novel, as we understand it today, did not appear until the 18th Century, some 150 years after Shakespeare's death.Most scholars believe that Shakespeare's last play - not written as a collboration - was The Tempest dated to around 1611.
"The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James is a novel that began with Howell's in the nineteenth century and has been further developed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through various adaptations and critical interpretations.
The word "hibiscus" does not appear in John Steinbeck's novel "The Pearl."