Draft:Outline of romance fiction
Made up stories of love relations
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to romance fiction:
A romance or romantic novel is a genre fiction work focused on the relationship and romantic love between two people, often concluding with an emotionally satisfying or optimistic ending. Authors who have significantly contributed to the development of this genre include Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë.
Romance novels can encompass various subgenres, such as bodice ripper, fantasy, contemporary, historical romance, paranormal fiction, sapphic, and science fiction. They may also contain tropes such as enemies to lovers, second chance, and forced proximity. While women have traditionally been considered the primary readers of romance novels, a 2017 study commissioned by the Romance Writers of America found that men accounted for 18% of romance book buyers.
Romance fiction – is a genre fiction that primary focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two people
What type of thing is romance fiction?
Romance fiction can be described as all of the following:
- Fiction – form of narrative which deals with imaginary elements.
- Genre fiction – Fictional work fitting a specific genre. Also known as popular fiction.
- Genre – A genre of fiction.
Subgenres of romance fiction
- Amish romance
- Chilvalric romance
- Contemporary romance
- Erotic romance
- Historical romance
- Inspirational romance
- Multicultural romance
- Paranormal romance
- Regency romance
- Romantic fantasy
- Romantic suspense
- Romantic thriller
- Ruritanian romance
- Science fiction romance
- Time-travel romance
- Slash fiction
- Adventure tales
- Gaslight romance, another name for gaslamp fantasy, featuring fantasy set at a time of approximately 19th-century technology
- Planetary romance, a genre of science fiction consisting of adventure tales on exotic planets
- Ruritanian romance, a genre of swashbuckling adventure novels, set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe
- Scientific romance, an archaic term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction
- Chivalric romance literature, a branch of medieval and medievalist literature
- Literature of Romanticism, a movement from the late 18th century that broke away from neoclassicism and which emphasized nature, the imagination and emotions
- Hellenistic romance, or Ancient Greek romance, a modern term for the genre of the five surviving Ancient Greek novels
- Romance (prose fiction), a type of novel, especially, but not necessarily, a historical novel, and distinct from genre-fiction love romances
- Romance literature (disambiguation)
- Romance novel, a genre of novel which emerged in the 20th century, directed at women readers, that focuses on romantic love, with many sub-genres:
- Amish romance, also known as "bonnet rippers"
- Contemporary romance
- Historical romance, a 20th-century genre fiction version of the historical novel
- Paranormal romance
- Regency romance
- Fantasy romance
Romance fiction, by form
Romance comics
Romance films
Romance on television
Romance novels
History of romance fiction
Romance fiction, by country
General romance fiction concepts
- Shipping –
Romance fiction organizations
Romance fiction publications
Persons influential in romance fiction
See also
- Anti-romance
References
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