A novel is the literal work in which writers reconstruct and narrates the peripheral truth of human and world by fictitious imagination of writers. Therefore, the image of human and world revealed in the novel is peripheral which is different from the general image of the society, and it is the important nature of the novel. We can explore the parts which the science cannot explain. From this aspect, humanistic status of novel and the research of novel is established. A Novel should be influenced by society and history. But, the manner of novelist who recognize the human and world is special. The object or the way of recognition is different from the manner of science. the results of researching the novels which are written by their own methods cannot help being different from those which are explained by science. We can explore true nature of human and world abundantly in combination with various things like these. There is humanistic meaning of research of novel in this aspect. The research of novel is the general term for a series of processes in which we find, select, organize, and interpret the materials that form the structure of novel. Therefore, this kind of research is the literature activity as well as the studies. The research of novel focus on the objective world known as novels for the object of research. But it needs the literal imagination of researchers because the novel is the product of fictitious imagination. The research of novel is different in the respect of the fact that it is about fictional reality not existed reality. This kind of research has the meaning of explaining the truth of human and world honestly not serving for the ideology or value. However it is against the social value of the time, the result is the true meaning of research of novel and the way which makes humanistic status robust.