Preface Introduction Part I: The Genre and its Historical Context 1. Genre definitions 2. The initial situation Part II. The History of the Romantic Tale in Verse: Poets, Works, Critics and the Public: 3. Early forms 4. The establishment of the genre by Sir Walter Scott, its fashionable period and imitations by other poets 5. 'The postscript of the Augustans' and the opposite of the romance 6. Ramification and dissolution 7. The subsequent fate of the genre Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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