Love & Passion Through The Ages gathers an unusually broad canon of historical, romantic, Gothic, realist, sentimental, and social fiction to examine desire as both private experience and public force. Spanning courtship, illicit attachment, marriage, betrayal, exile, inheritance, and class aspiration, the set places psychologically charged romances beside sweeping narratives of political upheaval and domestic constraint. Its range—from epistolary intrigue and irony to melodrama, regional portraiture, and tragic passion—reveals how love stories have repeatedly served as vehicles for moral inquiry and historical imagination. The contributors represent major traditions in British, French, Russian, American, Canadian, and transatlantic writing, while also bringing forward women's literary history and voices attentive to colonial, national, religious, and social difference. Enlightenment debates on sensibility and female education meet Victorian concerns with respectability, property, industrial change, and empire; later works introduce modern anxieties about individuality and desire. Collectively, these writers demonstrate that romance is never merely universal: it is shaped by institutions, conventions, and unequal freedoms. This boxed set is recommended for readers seeking a capacious introduction to the literary history of love. Its juxtaposition of canonical and less frequently studied works invites comparison across periods, nations, and forms, making it valuable for students and general readers alike. Each narrative deepens the dialogue between passion and circumstance, encouraging sustained reflection on how fiction has imagined intimacy through time.
Love & Passion Through The Ages (Historical Novels Boxed-Set) : A Classic Anthology of Courtship, Intrigue, Gothic Desire, and Forbidden Love
Écrit par D. K. Broster et Jane Austen et autres
