antiromance

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ romance

Noun[edit]

antiromance (plural antiromances)

  1. (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 […]
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