ROMANTIC PROSE

The gotic novel, the novel of manners, the novel of purprose the hitorical novel

The novel romantic age

Show deep psychological analysis of the characters

Use dialogue as the main instrument to express the personality of the characters

Use prose to tackle important social issues and to explore the relationship between the sociaal classes

Gothic novel

Ann Radcliffe's (1764-1823)

The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764)

Darks sides of the human mind and focus on horrror, mystery and the supernatural

Novels of purprose

Mary Shelley's (1797-1851)

Frankestin, or the Modern Prometheus (1818)

Novels of Manners and Historical Novels

Tackle themes such as the contrast between individual freedom and social conventions

Jame Austen (1775-1817)

Themes such as limits imposed by social conventions on feelings and the exploration of the conditions of the life of women

Ivanhoe (1820)

Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Other Prose Genres

Romantic prose encompasses many non-fictional genres, such as essays, treatises, phamphlets and public speeches

Edmund Burke's the origins of Our ideas of the Sublime and Beatiful (1757)

Mary Wollstonecraft a Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)