Although her early novels were dismissed as sentimental, later critics came to appreciate the novel sociological framework Wharton brought to depictions of class. Her willingness to treat domestic spaces as sites of economic struggle was, for its time, genuinely innovative.
As used in the text, what does the word "novel" most nearly mean?
- A
lengthy
- B
fictional
- Ccheck_circle
original
- D
popular
Explanation
The passage emphasizes that Wharton's framework was "genuinely innovative," so "novel" here means original or new, not the noun meaning a work of fiction.