Prose Romances
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Precursors of the chivalric romance of the Middle Ages and the Gothic novels of the later 18th Century.
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Heroic or Evil characters, solitary from society.
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Story tends to be in the historic past, unfamiliar atmosphere, adventurous plot, quest for an idea or the pursuit of an enemy, non real and melodramatic events.
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material of dream, myth, ritual, folklore.
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Major Prose Romances:
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Sir Thomas Malory – Morte d’Arthur
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Sir Thomas More – Utopia
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Sir Philip Sidney – Arcadia
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Thomas Lodge – Rosalynde
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John Lyly – Euphues, Tha Anatomy of Wit
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Francis bacon – The New Atlantis
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John Bunyan – Grace Abounding, The Pilgrim’s Progress
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Robert Greene – Pandosto
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Walter Scott – Rob Roy (1817)
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Alexander Dumas – The Three Musketters (1844-45)
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Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Adventure Novel: Martin Green, in Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire (1979) distinguished a special type of Romance, the adventure novel, which deals with musculine adventures in the newly colonized world.
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Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (1719)
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Robert Louis Stevenson – The Treasure Islansd (1883)
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H. Rider Haggard – King Solomon’s Mines (1886)
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Rudyard Kipling’s Kim (1901)
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Romance Novel:
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Love stories that focus on the heroine rather than the hero, happy ending.
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The narrative form got prominence in 1950s:
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Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740)
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Jane Austen’s 6 novels, published between 1811 and 1818
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Harlequin romances: published by Harlequin Enterprises, head quartered in Canada, employs over 1300 authors, mostly women.
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Important Critical Books:
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Women and Romance: The Consolation of Gender in the English Novel (1990) – Laurie Langbauer
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The Excellence of Falsehood: Romance, Realism, and Women’s Contribution to the Novel (1991) – Deborah Ross
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The American Novel and Its Tradition (1957) – Richard Chase
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“The Mythos of Summer: Romance,” in Anatomy of Criticism (1957) – Northrop Frye
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The Romance in America – Joel Porte
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The Romance Revolution (1987) – Carol Thurston
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Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (1991) – Janice Redway
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A Natural History of the Romance Novel (2003) – Pamela Regis
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