Historical Novel Vs Romance Formation in B. D’israeli’s Creative Search

Abstract

The key-features of the English Romanticism historical genre fusion of novel and romance created by B.D’Israeli (1804—1881) are considered in the article. Techniques of the historical novel and romance are investigated and illustrated with D’Israeli’s novel “Alroy”. Reviews taken from periodicals of the epoch and from the contemporary ones create social and cultural background of the novel writing process.

Keywords

• romanticism
• prose
• Romantic literature
• genre
• historical novel
• romance
• periodicals