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A romance novel or romantic novel is a genre fiction novel that primary focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two people, typically with...

As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern...

There is a second type of romance, genre fiction love romances, where the primary focus is on love and marriage. The term "romance" is now mainly used to...

genres are crime, fantasy, romance, science fiction and horror—as well as perhaps Western, inspirational and historical fiction. Slipstream genre is sometimes...

satisfies the literary definition of romance fiction. In the Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction, Critic Don D'Ammassa defines the genre...

Planetary romance (other synonyms are sword and planet, and (inter)planetary adventure) is a subgenre of science fiction in which the bulk of the action...

LGBT romance is a genre within gay literature and romance fiction focused on same-sex characters who fall in love and have a homosexual or homoromantic...

Paranormal romance is a subgenre of both romantic fiction and speculative fiction. Paranormal romance focuses on romantic love and includes elements beyond...

line between this subgenre and the genre of women's fiction has blurred. Most contemporary romance novels contain elements that date the books, and the...

Look up Romance, romance, or romantic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Romance may refer to: Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person...

comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic...

John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance". M. H. Abrams and Walter Scott have argued that a novel is a fiction narrative that displays a realistic...

Racism in the romance fiction industry is a recognized issue that has received scholarly attention since the 1980s. Romance novels featuring protagonists...

Amish romance is a literary subgenre of Christian fiction featuring Amish characters, but written and read mostly by evangelical Christian women. An industry...

genre fiction, the two are not mutually exclusive, and major literary figures have employed the genres of science fiction, crime fiction, romance, etc...

Award for Arabic Children's Literature International Prize for Arabic Fiction Katara Prize for Arabic Novel King Faisal International Prize for Arabic...

Historical romance is a broad category of mass-market fiction focusing on romantic relationships in historical periods, which Walter Scott helped popularize...

Tessa Bailey is an American author of romance fiction. Tessa Bailey is from Carlsbad, California. She attended Kingsborough Community College and studied...

18th-century poetry, before becoming one of the stock figures of gothic fiction with the publication of Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), which was inspired...

recent years the term "Gothic Romance" is being used to describe both old and new works of Gothic fiction. Gothic fiction continues to be extensively practised...