Romance

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Romance and romantic may refer to:

Various artistic genres:
* Romance novel, a genre of fiction focused on romantic love
* Men's romantic fiction, romance from a male perspective
* Romance film, a film whose plot centers around romantic love
**Romantic comedy film
**Romantic drama film
* Romantic music
* Romance (genre), a genre of medieval and renaissance narrative fiction
* Scientific romance, an archaic name for the fiction genre now generally known as science fiction
Romance languages, Indo-European languages that descend from Latin, such as French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Romance (music), a simple, lyrical piece of music for solo voice or instrument; and the common title or subtitle of several musical compositions
Romance, Missouri
Romance (1999 film), a film directed by Catherine Breillat
"Romance", a 1829 poem by Edgar Allan Poe
"Romance", a 1925 novel by George Orwell

Additionally, romantic can refer to several movements:

Romantic nationalism, form of nationalism
New Romantic, was a New Wave music subgenre and fashion movement
Romanticism, an artistic and intellectual movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
*German Romanticism, dominant cultural movement of much of the nineteenth century
*Romantic poetry, part of the Romantic movement of European literature
*Romantic music, music from the period of European classical music (1800s to early 1900s)
*Neo-romanticism, also known as post-romanticism and late-romanticism
*Neoromanticism (music), trend in European classical music in the second half of 19th century

See also