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== Romance ==
== 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).
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 is a medieval tale based on legend, chivalric love and adventure, or the supernatural(Webster 962). A new interest in the medieval romance contributed to the naming of the nineteenth century, [[Romanticism]](Drabble 842).


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