Translate:
English
Chinese (S)
Chinese (T)
Croatian
Dutch
French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Additional
historical romance
English Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
Download this dictionary
Historical romance
Historical romance
(also
historical novel
) is a broad category of
fiction
which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past, which
Walter Scott
helped popularize in the early 19th-century, with works such as
Rob Roy
and
Ivanhoe
.
Literary fiction
historical romances continue to be published, and a notable recent example is
Wolf Hall
(2009), a multi-award winning novel by English
historical novelist
Hilary Mantel
. It is also a
genre
of
mass-market
fiction, which is related to the broader
romantic love
genre.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License