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2. Romance (prose fiction) - Wikipedia

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   The term romance is applied across a number of genres, including the love romance novel, the historical novel, the adventure novel, and scientific romance (an older term for what is now called science fiction). Works of nautical fiction can also be romances, as the genre often overlaps with historical romance, adventure fiction, and fantasy ...

3. Romance novel - Wikipedia

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   The romance fiction market "has been impervious to the overall economic recession, with faithful readers spending up to $40 a month" on romance novels in 1982. [13] That year, paperback romances totaled $300 million in sales, and the total audience was estimated at 20 million readers.

4. Romantic fantasy - Wikipedia

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   Romantic fantasy or romantasy is a subgenre of fantasy fiction combining fantasy and romance, describing a fantasy story using many of the elements and conventions of the chivalric romance genre. [1] One of the key features of romantic fantasy involves the focus on relationships, social, political, and romantic.

5. 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 ...

6. Historical romance - Wikipedia

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   In the late 1980s, historical romance dominated the romance genre. The most popular of the historical romances were those that featured warriors, knights, pirates, and cowboys . [ 23 ] In the 1990s the genre began to focus more on humor, as Julie Garwood began introducing humorous elements and characters into her historical romances.

7. Romantic literature in English - Wikipedia

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   The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]