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Romantic novels - Coggle Diagram
Romantic novels
have 4 genres
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Different themes, but some common traits:
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The Gothic novel
Horace Walpole,"The Castle of Otranto".Anne Radcliffe,"The mystery of Udolpho".Edgar Allan Poe
Explore the dark side of the human mind, the supernatural, mystery and horror
The novel of manners
The themes are the individual freedom, the social conventions, marriage, love and friendship
Jane Austen,in her novels write about the limits imposed by the social convention and the conditions of the life of woman
The novel of purpose
aim to propagate ideas
Mary Shelley,"Frankestein".She anticipates the science and horror fiction
the historical novel
Interest for the past, in particular the Middle age.History and popular traditions
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Romantic prose
essays, treatises, pamphlets and public speeches
Edmund Burke,Mary Wollstonecraft