The Forgotten Art of Courtship: 40 Romance Novels
Forty Classic Novels of Love, Social Convention, Female Agency, and DesireBy 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, Henry James, Charles Reade, Mrs. Olifant, Anthony Trollope, George Sand, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs. Alexander, Robert Barr, George Eliot, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Edith Wharton
Length801h 19m
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The Forgotten Art of Courtship: 40 Romance Novels surveys the changing languages of desire, marriage, social ambition, and emotional self-determination across the long nineteenth century and its literary afterlives. Ranging from comedy of manners and epistolary intrigue to Gothic intensity, domestic realism, historical adventure, and psychologically nuanced social fiction, the volume reveals courtship as both private feeling and public negotiation. Its selection juxtaposes witty examinations of rank and reputation with darker studies of seduction, inheritance, colonial horizons, and the constraints placed upon women's choices. The contributing writers represent a remarkable international constellation of British, French, Russian, and American fiction, including canonical novelists alongside once widely read popular authors. Together, their works trace the evolution of romance through Romanticism, Victorian realism, sensation fiction, the historical novel, regional writing, and early modernist social analysis. Across differing national traditions and class settings, these voices illuminate how love plots register shifting ideals of companionate marriage, female education, economic dependence, and individual autonomy. This anthology is especially rewarding for readers seeking to encounter romance as a serious and versatile literary form. Its breadth invites comparison among styles, eras, and moral perspectives, while its collected format makes visible a sustained dialogue about intimacy and society. Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find an invaluable portal into the rich history of courtship fiction.
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GenreRomance
Length801 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1St. Martin's Eve (Annotated)
26CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
2Pride and Prejudice
27CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
3CHAPTER ONE
28CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
4CHAPTER TWO
29CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
5CHAPTER THREE
30CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
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6CHAPTER FOUR
31CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
7CHAPTER FIVE
32CHAPTER THIRTY
8CHAPTER SIX
33CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
9CHAPTER SEVEN
34CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
10CHAPTER EIGHT
35CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
11CHAPTER NINE
36CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
12CHAPTER TEN
37CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
13CHAPTER ELEVEN
38CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
14CHAPTER TWELVE
39CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
15CHAPTER THIRTEEN
40CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
16CHAPTER FOURTEEN
41CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
17CHAPTER FIFTEEN
42CHAPTER FOURTY
18CHAPTER SIXTEEN
43CHAPTER FOURTY-ONE
19CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
44CHAPTER FOURTY-TWO
20CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
45CHAPTER FOURTY-THREE
21CHAPTER NINETEEN
46CHAPTER FOURTY-FOUR
22CHAPTER TWENTY
47CHAPTER FOURTY-FIVE
23CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
48CHAPTER FOURTY-SIX
24CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
49CHAPTER FOURTY-SEVEN
25CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
50CHAPTER FOURTY-EIGHT
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