Romance: Difference between revisions

Romance is a fictitious narrative in prose or verse, the interest of which turns upon incidents either marvelous or uncommon(Encyclopedia Americana 646d). Romance originally denoted any verse narrative written in one of the [[Romance Languages]], during the Middle Ages(Merit Student Encyclopedia 117). Romance contains a brief history of romance as a literary form, of its extension and the influence throughout Western Europe up to and after the Renaissance, and of its reemergence in the 18th century(Encyclopaedia Britannica 1020).