Meanings
nounantiromance (plural antiromances)
plural antiromances
- literatureA novel or other work that rejects the conventions of the romance form.
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[…]
1990, Julie Stone Peters, Congreve, the Drama, and the Printed Word, page 114
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