character-delineation

And a little earlier the eighteenth century essayists, with Steele and Addison at the head of them, had developed the art of character-delineation, a development out of which the novelists were to make their profit.

Clayton Meeker Hamilton - Materials and Methods of Fiction: With an Introduction by Brander Matthews

And a little earlier the eighteenth century essayists, with Steele and Addison at the head of them, had developed the art of character-delineation, a development out of which the novelists were to make their profit.

Clayton Meeker Hamilton - A Manual of the Art of Fiction