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  2. Romance (love) - Wikipedia

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    The word "romance" is derived from the Latin adverb Romanice, meaning "in the vernacular," in reference to the languages Old French and Old Occitan. These languages were descendants of Latin, the language of the Romans. Evolutions of the word Romanice were used to refer first to the Romance languages and eventually also to the works composed in ...

  3. Romance - Wikipedia

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    Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings Romantic orientation, the classification of the sex or gender with which a person experiences romantic attraction towards or is likely to have a romantic relationship with

  4. Historical romance - Wikipedia

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    Historical romance novels are rarely published in hardcover, with fewer than 15 receiving that status each year. The contemporary market usually sees 4 to 5 times that many hardcovers. Because historical romances are primarily published in mass-market format, their fortunes are tied to a certain extent to the mass-market trends.

  5. List of romance films - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of romance films This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .

  6. Romance novel - Wikipedia

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    A romance novel or romantic novel is a genre fiction novel that primarily focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two people, ...

  7. Romantic literature - Wikipedia

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    William Wordsworth (pictured) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature in 1798 with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. In English literature, the key figures of the Romantic movement are considered to be the group of poets including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the much older ...

  8. Romance literature - Wikipedia

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    Romance (prose fiction), a type of novel; Literature of Romanticism, a movement from the 18th century away from neoclassicism and emphasizing the imagination and emotions, with English Romanticism emphasizing sensibility, autobiography, external nature, melancholy, the primitive, the common man, and the remote. Literature in the Romance languages

  9. Free love - Wikipedia

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    Free love is a social movement that accepts all forms of love.The movement's initial goal was to separate the state from sexual and romantic matters such as marriage, birth control, and adultery.