The Hidden Passion of Regency Era – 40 Romance Novels
A Classic Romance Anthology of Courtship, Gothic Desire, Social Manners, and Moral RebellionBy Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Eliza Haywood, Jane Austen, Alexander Pushkin, Lady Sydney Morgan, Mary Hays, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Stendhal, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Alessandro Manzoni, George Eliot, George Sand, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Stanley John Weyman, Samuel Richardson
Length713h 45m
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The Hidden Passion of Regency Era – 40 Romance Novels gathers courtship plots, clandestine attachments, seductions, marriages of convenience, and moral reckonings into a capacious panorama of European romantic fiction. Its range extends from epistolary intrigue and Gothic intensity to social comedy, historical romance, domestic realism, and psychologically searching narrative. Alongside the polished manners of the Regency, the volume situates passion within longer eighteenth- and nineteenth-century debates about class, gender, desire, and individual freedom; tales of forbidden love and conflicts between feeling and duty provide particular force. The collection brings together major women and men of letters from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia, whose careers helped define the modern novel's treatment of intimacy and social life. Reform-minded fiction, sentimental traditions, Romantic individualism, and the emergence of realist social critique converge here. These varied voices illuminate how romance could serve not merely as diversion, but as an arena for examining inheritance, education, reputation, political change, and women's constrained choices. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare styles, national traditions, and conceptions of love within one volume. Its breadth makes it valuable both as an introduction to canonical fiction and as a prompt for attentive reflection on the continuing dialogue between passion, convention, and narrative form.
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GenreRomance
Length713 hrs 45 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Trevethlan (Vol. 1-3)
26CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
2The Hidden Passion of Regency Era – 40 Romance Novels
27CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
3Persuasion
28Mansfield Park
4CHAPTER ONE
29CHAPTER ONE
5CHAPTER TWO
30CHAPTER TWO
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6CHAPTER THREE
31CHAPTER THREE
7CHAPTER FOUR
32CHAPTER FOUR
8CHAPTER FIVE
33CHAPTER FIVE
9CHAPTER SIX
34CHAPTER SIX
10CHAPTER SEVEN
35CHAPTER SEVEN
11CHAPTER EIGHT
36CHAPTER EIGHT
12CHAPTER NINE
37CHAPTER NINE
13CHAPTER TEN
38CHAPTER TEN
14CHAPTER ELEVEN
39CHAPTER ELEVEN
15CHAPTER TWELVE
40CHAPTER TWELVE
16CHAPTER THIRTEEN
41CHAPTER THIRTEEN
17CHAPTER FOURTEEN
42CHAPTER FOURTEEN
18CHAPTER FIFTEEN
43CHAPTER FIFTEEN
19CHAPTER SIXTEEN
44CHAPTER SIXTEEN
20CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
45CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
21CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
46CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
22CHAPTER NINETEEN
47CHAPTER NINETEEN
23CHAPTER TWENTY
48CHAPTER TWENTY
24CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
49CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
25CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
50CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
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