Length713h 45m

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40 Regency-Romance Novels situates courtship, inheritance, sensibility, and social ambition within a capacious European tradition of romantic fiction. Its selections range from epistolary intrigue and satire of manners to Gothic intensity, domestic realism, historical romance, and psychologically searching narratives. Alongside the familiar rituals of balls, marriages, estates, and reputation, the volume foregrounds questions of women's education, class mobility, national identity, and the fraught relation between desire and duty. The resulting panorama exceeds a narrow definition of the Regency, illuminating the literary currents that shaped—and outlasted—the period. The collection brings together British, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Irish writers whose careers span the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These voices participate variously in sentimental fiction, Romanticism, the novel of manners, realism, and the historical novel, while repeatedly testing the social constraints placed upon women and lovers. The presence of major women novelists beside continental innovators and later Victorian commentators reveals romance as a transnational form through which private feeling becomes a vehicle for social critique. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this volume offers an unusually rich comparative encounter with romantic fiction. Its breadth invites readers to trace recurring conventions across languages and generations, while attending to striking differences in tone, form, and moral vision. Read together, these novels create a rewarding dialogue about love, power, and the social worlds that define them.

Audiobook details

GenreRomance, General Fiction
Length713 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland
26CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
240 Regency-Romance Novels
27CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
3Persuasion
28The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
4CHAPTER ONE
29VOLUME THE FIRST (pt. 1)
5CHAPTER TWO
30VOLUME THE FIRST (pt. 2)
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6CHAPTER THREE
31VOLUME THE FIRST (pt. 3)
7CHAPTER FOUR
32VOLUME THE SECOND (pt. 1)
8CHAPTER FIVE
33VOLUME THE SECOND (pt. 2)
9CHAPTER SIX
34VOLUME THE SECOND (pt. 3)
10CHAPTER SEVEN
35VOLUME THE THIRD (pt. 1)
11CHAPTER EIGHT
36VOLUME THE THIRD (pt. 2)
12CHAPTER NINE
37VOLUME THE THIRD (pt. 3)
13CHAPTER TEN
38VOLUME THE FOURTH (pt. 1)
14CHAPTER ELEVEN
39VOLUME THE FOURTH (pt. 2)
15CHAPTER TWELVE
40VOLUME THE FOURTH (pt. 3)
16CHAPTER THIRTEEN
41Memoirs of Emma Courtney
17CHAPTER FOURTEEN
42PREFACE
18CHAPTER FIFTEEN
43VOLUME I (pt. 1)
19CHAPTER SIXTEEN
44VOLUME I (pt. 2)
20CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
45VOLUME II (pt. 1)
21CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
46VOLUME II (pt. 2)
22CHAPTER NINETEEN
47Wuthering Heights
23CHAPTER TWENTY
48Chapter I
24CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
49Chapter II
25CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
50Chapter III
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