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)