roman à clef
noun/rəʊˌmɑn.əˈkleɪ/
Etymology
Borrowed from French roman à clef (literally “novel with a key”).
- borrowed from roman à clef
Definitions
A piece of fiction, especially a novel, describing real-life people or events.
- I want to emphasize that in this respect my account of romance differs substantially from both Annabel Patterson's argument that the primary purpose of roman à clef in early modern England was to avoid censorship and Michael McKeon's […]
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