List of Genre Terms in alphabetical order...

 

N.B. The number of hierarchical positions is noted next to the term if it appears more than once in the thesaurus. Other notes in square brackets. Bold indicates a term with existing scope note.

 

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Abridgements

Academic addresses

Academic catalogs [x2]

Academic dissertations

Account books [CM note]

Acrostics

Acting editions [x2]

Adaptations

Addresses

Administrative regulations

Advertisements [x2]

Advertising cards

Advertising mail [x2]

Affidavits

Albums

Allegories [x2]

Almanacs

Alphabet books [x3]

Alphabet rhymes [x4]

Alphabets (Writing systems)

Alternative publications [x3]

Anagrams

Anatomical atlases [x3]

Annals

Anniversary sermons [x2]

Annual reports

Anthologies

Anti-abolition literature

Anti-Catholic literature

Anti-clerical literature

Anti-communist literature

Anti-homosexual literature

Anti-immigrant literature

Anti-Masonic literature

Antiphonaries [x2]

Anti-Semitic literature

Anti-slave trade literature

Antislavery literature

Anti-woman suffrage literature

Apocalyptic sermons [x2]

Appointment books

Armorials [x2]

Army lists

Artillery election sermons [x2]

Artists' books

Atlases (Geographic) [x2]

Atlases (Scientific) [x2]

Auction catalogs [x3]

Authorship (Gathering Term; do not assign)

Autobiographies

Awards [x2]

Baccalaureate addresses [x2]

Baccalaureate sermons [x2]

Ballad operas

Ballads

Banned works

Baptismal records [x2]

Battle sermons [x2]

Begging poems

Bible stories [x2]

Bibliographies

Big little books [x3]

Bildungsromane

Bills

Bills of mortality

Biographical fiction

Biographies

Blank forms [x2]

Blow books [x2]

Book auction catalogs [x2]

Book prospectuses [x2]

Bookmarks

Books for the visually impaired

Books of hours [x2]

Books printed as advertisements [x2]

Booksellers' advertisements [x3]

Booksellers' catalogs

Brand books [x2]

Breviaries

Broadside poems [x2]

Broadsides

Burlesques

Calaveras [x3]

Calendars

Campaign biographies [x2]

Campaign literature

Captivity narratives

Caricaturesc [x2]

Carol books

Carriers' addresses [x2]

Cartoons [x2]

Cast lists

Catalogs

Catchpenny prints [x2]

Catechisms [x2]

Celestial atlases [x2]

Censored works

Censuses

Century sermons [x2]

Certificates [x3]

Chants

Chapbooks

Charades

Charters

Children's sermons [x2]

Choir books

Chrestomathies [x2]

Christening books [x3]

Christmas pantomimes

Christmas sermons [x2]

Chronicles

Ciphers

City directories

Class notes [x2]

Clippings

College catalogs [x2]

Coloring books [x2]

Comedies [x2]

Comic books [x2]

Comic histories [x2]

Commemorative works

Commendatory poems

Commonplace books

Company prospectuses [x2]

Concordances

Concordats

Concrete poems

Condemned works

Conditions of publication (Gathering term; do not assign)

Conference programs

Confessions

Congressional addresses [x2]

Constitutions

Content of work (Gathering term; do not assign)

Contracts

Conversion narratives [x2]

Convicts' addresses

Cookbooks

Copy books (Penmanship)

Corantos

Courtesy books

Cries

Cruise books [x2]

Dance of death [x2]

Daybooks

Dedication sermons [x2]

Deeds

Devotional calendars

Devotional literature

Dialogues

Diaries

Dictionaries

Dime novels

Directories

Discoursive works

Division lists

Doomsday literature

Dramatic monologues

Drawing books [x2]

Eclogues

Election sermons [x2]

Elegies

Emblem books [x2]

Emigrant guides [x2]

Encyclopedias

Ephemera

Ephemerides [x2]

Epics

Epigrams [x2]

Epistolary novels

Epitaphs

Erotica

Essays

Etiquette books

Etymological dictionaries

Eulogies

Evangeliaries

Execution sermons [x2]

Exercise books (Penmanship)

Exhibition catalogs [x2]

Exploration literature

Expurgated editions [x2]

Fables [x2]

Fabliaux

Facetiae

Fairy tales [x2]

Family histories

Fantasy literature

Fanzines

Farces [x2]

Farewell sermons [x2]

Fast day addresses

Fast day proclamations [x2]

Fast-day sermons [x2]

Feast day sermons [x2]

Festival books [x2]

Festschriften

Feuilletons [x2]

Fiction

Field notes

Film scripts

Flip books

Folk plays [x2]

Folk tales [x2]

Folklore

Formularies

Fourth of July addresses

Fourth of July sermons [x2]

Fraternity rituals

Funeral addresses

Funeral books [x2]

Funeral sermons [x2]

Gallows speeches

Games

Gazetteers [x2]

Genealogies

Geographic works*

Gesta

Ghost stories

Gift books

Glossaries

Gospel books

Gothic novels

Graduals [x2]

Grammars

Guestbooks [x2]

Guidebooks

Half century sermons [x2]

Harlequinades (Plays) [x2]

Herbals [x3]

Heroic dramas

Historical fiction

Historical works*

Hornbooks

Humorous works

Hymnals [x2]

Hymns [x2]

Illustrated works

Imaginary conversations

Imaginary voyages

Indexes

Indulgences

Inquisitiones post mortem

Installation sermons [x2]

Instructional works

Interlinearies

Interviews

Invitations

Itineraries

Jestbooks

Jesuit relations [x2]

Juvenile literature

Juvenilia

Keepsakes

Laboratory notes [x2]

Lampoons

Laws

Leaf books

Lecture notes [x2]

Lectures

Legal formularies [x2]

Legal instruments

Legal petitions

Legal works

Legislative addresses [x2]

Legislative hearings

Legislative proceedings

Letters

Library catalogs [x2]

Libretti

Libri amicorum

Limericks [x2]

Litanies

Literary forms (Gathering term; do not assign)

Literary hoaxes

Literary quarrels

Literature of prejudice

Little magazines

Liturgical books

Livres d’artistes

Local histories

Lodge rituals

Logs

Lyric poems

Manuals (Handbooks)

Manufacturers' catalogs [x2]

Maps

Maritime journals [x3]

Masques

Mathematical recreations

Maxims

Mazarinades

Medical formularies [x2]

Membership lists

Memoirs

Memorials (Commemorative)

Memorials (Legal)

Menus

Merchant manuals [x2]

Metamorphic pictures

Military histories

Military manuals

Military orders

Military registers

Military regulations

Military unit histories

Minstrel jokes

Minstrel songs

Miracle narratives [x2]

Miracle plays [x2]

Missals

Morality plays

Museum catalogs [x2]

Musical works

Mystery and detective fiction

Mystery plays [x2]

Myths and legends [x2]

Narratives

National songs

Navy lists

Neo-Latin poems

New Year addresses [x2]

New Year sermons [x2]

Newsbooks

Newsletters

Newspapers

Nonsense verse [x2]

Notebooks

Novellas

Novels

Novenas

Nursery rhymes [x2]

Nursery stories

Obituaries

Occasional addresses

Occasional poems

Occasional sermons [x2]

Occult fiction

Odes

Official gazettes [x2]

Offprints

Operas

Operettas

Oral histories

Orders in council

Ordination sermons [x2]

Oriental tales

Overland journals [x3]

Painted books

Pamphlet wars

Parables

Parliamentary petitions

Parodies [x2]

Part books

Parts

Pasquinades

Passenger lists

Passion plays [x2]

Pastiches [x2]

Pastoral poems

Pastoral romances

Pataphysical literature

Pattern books [x2]

Penmanship manuals

Penmanship specimen books

Penny dreadfuls

Penny poems

Performance poems

Periodicals

Perpetual calendars

Petitions

Pharmacopoeias [x2]

Phrase books

Picaresque literature

Picture novels [x2]

Pilot guides [x2]

Playbills

Plays

Plot-your-own stories

Poems

Poetical miscellanies [x2]

Poetry of places

Political works*

Pontificals

Portolan charts

Posters [x2]

Prayer books

Prayers

Press releases

Price lists

Primers (Instructional books)

Printers' advertisements [x2]

Prize poems

Proclamations [x2]

Programs

Promptbooks [x2]

Propaganda

Prospectuses [x2]

Protest literature

Proverbs

Psalters

Publishers' advertisements [x2]

Publishers' catalogs [x2]

Puppet plays

Purpose of work (Gathering term; do not assign)

Puzzles

Questions and answers

Quotations

Radio plays

Rappresentazioni [x2]

Readers

Rebuses

Record-keeping works

Recreations

Reference works*

Regimental histories

Regulations

Religious plays [x2]

Religious works

Resistance publications

Reverse dictionaries

Riddles

Rituals

Roadbooks

Robinsonades

Romances

Romans à clef

Royal petitions

Sacramentaries

Sales catalogs [x3]

Samizdat

Sample books [x2]

Satires

Scenarios [x2]

Schedules

School catalogs [x2]

Science fiction

Scientific recreations

Scientific works

Scores

Scrapbooks

Sea stories

Sermons [x2]

Service books

Session laws

Short stories

Slave narratives

Social customs*

Song sheets

Songs

Songsters

Souvenir programs [x2]

Spellers

Spirit communications

Sporting event programs

Stations of the cross

Student protest literature

Subscribers' lists

Subscription publications

Survivalist literature [x2]

Survivors' narratives

Synopses

Table books

Technical formularies [x2]

Television plays

Textbooks

Thanksgiving day addresses

Thanksgiving day proclamations [x2]

Thanksgiving sermons [x2]

Theater programs

Thesauri

Three deckers

Tijuana bibles [x2]

Trade catalogs [x2]

Tragedies

Tragicomedies

Translations

Travel literature

Treaties

Trial proceedings

Type specimens [x2]

Underground publications

Unfinished works

Unique books

University catalogs [x2]

Utopian literature

Versions of works (Gathering term; do not assign)

Viewbooks [x2]

Visitation sermons [x2]

Volvelles

Voting registers

War fiction

War sermons [x2]

Wedding books [x2]

Wedding sermons [x2]

Western fiction

White supremacist literature

Wordbooks

Writing books

Xenophobic literature

Yearbooks [x2]

Yellowbacks [x2]

Zines

 

 

*(Gathering term; do not use; index under a narrower term. NB. This phrase appears in SN)