Can you elaborate? Genre in practice is a short description of the type of the story. A genre such as "Western" or "Historical Fiction" or "Fantasy" define many

Can you elaborate? Genre in practice is a short description of the type of the story. A genre such as "Western" or "Historical Fiction" or "Fantasy" define many things about the setting. Some, like "Romance" don't necessarily seem to define settings, but in practice the subspace of settings used in romance novels matches the space of genres which explicitly define their setting; "Romance" is not the only genre they occupy.