Romance

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).

Works Cited

Romance. The Encyclopedia Americana. 1829

Romance. Encyclopaedia Britannica.Vol 15. 1974

Romance. Merit Student Encyclopedia.Vol 16. 1977