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The Romance Revival
2010
Overview
‘It is not needful, nor indeed is it possible, to define Romance,’ Sir Walter Raleigh, first Oxford Professor of English Literature, told his Princeton audience in 1915, and immediately went on to contradict himself. He discussed the origins and development of romance, ‘a perennial form of modern literature’ recurring in every period, and most notably in the ‘romance revival’ of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, which rediscovered the medieval as the Renaissance had rediscovered the classical. The romance revival with which this book deals happened much closer to Raleigh’s own time, in the 1880s and 90s. It was
