Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE -- 1 HISTORY AND DEFINITION -- Some characteristics -- Historical development -- The romance and the reader -- The romance and the novel -- Objections to the romance -- 2 MEDIEVAL TO RENAISSANCE ROMANCE: HISTORY AND MYTH -- Medieval chivalric romance -- Elizabethan romance -- 3 CERVANTES TO THE GOTHIC NOVEL: THE ROMANCE AND THE RISE OF THE NOVEL -- Don Quixote -- The decline of the romance -- The Gothic revival -- 4 ROMANTICISM AND POST-ROMANTIC ROMANCE -- The romance and some romantic poems -- 'Realism' and 'Romance' -- The reconciliation of 'Romance' and 'Realism' -- 5 CONCLUSION -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX