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Prose Romances

About the Author: Abirlal Mukherjee

Assistant Professor (Amity University), Digital Humanist
Ph.D in English (GITAM, India), M.A. and B.A. in English (B.C.C., B.K.U, India), P.G.D.E. -I by Research (B.C.U, UK), TESOL Prof. Certification (Arizona State University, USA)

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Prose Romances

  1. Precursors of the chivalric romance of the Middle Ages and the Gothic novels of the later 18th Century.
  2. Heroic or Evil characters, solitary from society.
  3. 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.
  4. material of dream, myth, ritual, folklore.
  5. Major Prose Romances:
    1. Sir Thomas Malory – Morte d’Arthur
    2. Sir Thomas More – Utopia
    3. Sir Philip Sidney – Arcadia
    4. Thomas Lodge – Rosalynde
    5. John Lyly – Euphues, Tha Anatomy of Wit
    6. Francis bacon – The New Atlantis
    7. John Bunyan – Grace Abounding, The Pilgrim’s Progress
    8. Robert Greene – Pandosto
    9. Walter Scott – Rob Roy (1817)
    10. Alexander Dumas – The Three Musketters (1844-45)
    11. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights (1847)
  6. 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.
    1. Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (1719)
    2. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Treasure Islansd (1883)
    3. H. Rider Haggard – King Solomon’s Mines (1886)
    4. Rudyard Kipling’s Kim (1901)
  7. Romance Novel:
    1. Love stories that focus on the heroine rather than the hero, happy ending.
    2. The narrative form got prominence in 1950s:
      1. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740)
      2. Jane Austen’s 6 novels, published between 1811 and 1818
    3. Harlequin romances: published by Harlequin Enterprises, head quartered in Canada, employs over 1300 authors, mostly women.
  8. Important Critical Books:
    1. Women and Romance: The Consolation of Gender in the English Novel (1990) – Laurie Langbauer
    2. The Excellence of Falsehood: Romance, Realism, and Women’s Contribution to the Novel (1991) – Deborah Ross
    3. The American Novel and Its Tradition (1957) – Richard Chase
    4. “The Mythos of Summer: Romance,” in Anatomy of Criticism (1957) – Northrop Frye
    5. The Romance in America – Joel Porte
    6. The Romance Revolution (1987) – Carol Thurston
    7. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (1991) – Janice Redway
    8. A Natural History of the Romance Novel (2003) – Pamela Regis

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