antiromance
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Etymology edit
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antiromance (plural antiromances)
- (literature) A novel or other work that rejects the conventions of the romance form.
- 1990, Julie Stone Peters, Congreve, the Drama, and the Printed Word, page 114:
- Congreve articulates here for the English a distinction already implicit in such antiromances as Don Quixote (1605), Charles Sorel's Berger extravagant (1627-28), or Paul Scarron's novels […]