The Lost Charm of Courtship - 40 Romance Classics
Courtship, Marriage, Intrigue, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century RomanceBy Lucy Maud Montgomery, Henry James, Jane Austen, Alexander Pushkin, Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Alexandre Dumas, Louisa May Alcott, Stanley John Weyman, R. D. Blackmore, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Grace Livingston Hill, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Stendhal, Walter Scott, Charles Reade, Mrs. Olifant, Anthony Trollope, George Sand, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs. Alexander, Robert Barr, George Eliot, Edith Wharton
Length804h 17m
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The Lost Charm of Courtship - 40 Romance Classics surveys the changing languages of desire, marriage, social ambition, and moral choice across the long nineteenth century and beyond. Its selections range from comedy of manners and epistolary intrigue to Gothic intensity, historical adventure, domestic realism, and psychologically nuanced social fiction. Courtship appears not merely as a route to happy union but as a testing ground for class, gender, inheritance, reputation, and individual freedom; tales of disguises, misunderstandings, forbidden attachments, and hard-won recognition illuminate the genre's enduring complexity. Gathering British, American, French, and Russian voices, the volume situates romance within an international literary conversation. Its contributors include central figures of the novel of manners, the Victorian social novel, Romantic and realist fiction, sensation and historical romance, and women's domestic and reform-minded writing. Across these distinct traditions, the collection reveals how narratives of love could both reproduce prevailing ideals and question the constraints imposed upon women and men by family, wealth, and public opinion. This anthology is recommended for readers seeking an expansive introduction to classic romance and to the novel's cultural history. By placing varied styles and national traditions in dialogue, it offers an unusually rich opportunity to trace recurring motifs alongside striking differences in tone and ethical vision. It is valuable both as pleasurable reading and as a compact resource for studying courtship's literary, social, and historical meanings.
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GenreLiterary Classics, Romance
Length804 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Forgotten Art of Courtship: 40 Romance Novels
26CHAPTER 1 (pt. 2)
2Camilla; or, A Picture of Youth
27BOOK 9
3TO THE QUEEN
28CHAPTER 1 (pt. 1)
4BOOK 1
29CHAPTER 1 (pt. 2)
5CHAPTER 1
30BOOK 10
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6BOOK 2
31CHAPTER 1 (pt. 1)
7CHAPTER 1 (pt. 1)
32CHAPTER 1 (pt. 2)
8CHAPTER 1 (pt. 2)
33CHAPTER 1 (pt. 3)
9BOOK 3
34Cecilia
10CHAPTER 1 (pt. 1)
35PREFACE
11CHAPTER 1 (pt. 2)
36BOOK 1
12BOOK 4
37CHAPTER 1 (pt. 1)
13CHAPTER 1 (pt. 1)
38CHAPTER 1 (pt. 2)
14CHAPTER 1 (pt. 2)
39BOOK 2
15BOOK 5
40CHAPTER 1 (pt. 1)
16CHAPTER 1
41CHAPTER 1 (pt. 2)
17BOOK 6
42BOOK 3
18CHAPTER 1 (pt. 1)
43CHAPTER 1 (pt. 1)
19CHAPTER 1 (pt. 2)
44CHAPTER 1 (pt. 2)
20CHAPTER 1 (pt. 3)
45BOOK 4
21BOOK 7
46CHAPTER 1 (pt. 1)
22CHAPTER 1 (pt. 1)
47CHAPTER 1 (pt. 2)
23CHAPTER 1 (pt. 2)
48BOOK 5
24BOOK 8
49CHAPTER 1 (pt. 1)
25CHAPTER 1 (pt. 1)
50CHAPTER 1 (pt. 2)
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