The Romance by Gillian Beer

The Romance by Gillian Beer

First published in 1970, this work provides an overview of the Romance from the medieval period to the 20th century and tracks how the genre has changed with time, including its interaction with other forms of literature such as gothic novels, realism and science fiction. It explores a myriad of writers including Chaucer, Sidney, Tennyson, Shelley, Meredith and Keats and analyses key texts such as Don Quixote by Cervantes and Kubla Khan by Coleridge.

This book will be of interest to those studying Romantic literature.

Gillian Beer is the University of Cambridge's King Edward VII Professor of English Literature Emerita. Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction, as well as Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground, are among her works. She has edited popular editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Jane Austen's Persuasion, and Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems. She was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1998.