Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE; 1 HISTORY AND DEFINITION; Some characteristics; Historical development; The romance and the reader; The romance and the novel; Objections to the romance; 2 MEDIEVAL TO RENAISSANCE ROMANCE: HISTORY AND MYTH; Medieval chivalric romance; Elizabethan romance; 3 CERVANTES TO THE GOTHIC NOVEL: THE ROMANCE AND THE RISE OF THE NOVEL; Don Quixote; The decline of the romance; The Gothic revival; 4 ROMANTICISM AND POST-ROMANTIC ROMANCE; The romance and some romantic poems; 'Realism' and 'Romance'
The reconciliation of 'Romance' and 'Realism'5 CONCLUSION; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
