Throughout history Romance has been According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Romance is defined as a narrative or work of fiction that has the nature or qualities of a romance. Romanticism is a period, movement, or style in literature, music, and other arts starting in the late 1700s and flourishing in the early 1800s. During the Victorian Age, romantic love became viewed as the primary requirement for marriage and courting became even more formal, almost viewed as an art form among the upper