10 American Romance Classics
Classic Love Stories of Courtship, Class, Gothic Passion, Frontier Devotion, and Modern DesireBy Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert Barr, Grace Livingston Hill, Randall Parrish, Gene Stratton-Porter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Length114h 18m
About this audiobook
10 American Romance Classics surveys the changing idioms of love, courtship, desire, and moral choice across American fiction from the nineteenth century into the modern age. Its selections range from Gothic ambiguity and sentimental domestic narrative to historical adventure, social comedy, regional romance, and psychologically intricate realism. Rather than reducing romance to convention, the volume reveals it as a form through which writers test class aspiration, gendered obligation, innocence, secrecy, and the tension between private feeling and public decorum. The contributing authors represent a remarkable cross-section of American literary culture: canonical novelists of realism and modernism appear beside influential popular writers of domestic, historical, and nature-inflected fiction. Together, these voices trace the development of romance through the aftermath of Romanticism, the pressures of Victorian morality, the rise of mass readership, and the disillusionments of the early twentieth century. Their differing social settings and narrative methods illuminate how ideals of love could affirm, challenge, or evade prevailing assumptions about family, wealth, respectability, and national identity. Ideal for students and general readers alike, this anthology offers an accessible encounter with romance as both a durable popular mode and a serious literary tradition. Reading its works in conversation encourages attention to shifting styles, cultural values, and emotional vocabularies, while its breadth makes the collection a valuable introduction to the many forms American love stories have taken.
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GenreRomance
Length114 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Greatest Romance Novels of American Literature
26Chapter XVI
2Age of Innocence
27Chapter XVII
3Book I (pt. 1)
28Chapter XVIII
4Book I (pt. 2)
29Chapter XIX
5Book I (pt. 3)
30Chapter XX
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6Book II (pt. 1)
31Chapter XXI
7Book II (pt. 2)
32Chapter XXII
8Book II (pt. 3)
33Chapter XXIII
9The Portrait of a Lady
34Chapter XXIV
10Preface
35Chapter XXV
11Chapter I
36Chapter XXVI
12Chapter II
37Chapter XXVII
13Chapter III
38Chapter XXVIII
14Chapter IV
39Chapter XXIX
15Chapter V
40Chapter XXX
16Chapter VI
41Chapter XXXI
17Chapter VII
42Chapter XXXII
18Chapter VIII
43Chapter XXXIII
19Chapter IX
44Chapter XXIV
20Chapter X
45Chapter XXXV
21Chapter XI
46Chapter XXXVI
22Chapter XII
47Chapter XXXVII
23Chapter XIII
48Chapter XXXVIII
24Chapter XIV
49Chapter XXXIX
25Chapter XV
50Chapter XL
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