What is the term for the nineteenth-century novel of fashionable high life?
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Correct answer: B. Silver-fork novel
Explanation
Hazlitt's sneer at 'The Dandy School' (1827) gave the name to the fashionable novels of Bulwer-Lytton (Pelham), Disraeli and Catherine Gore.
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