Romantic Love and Nineteenth-Century Croatian Novel

Rad analizira koncept romantične ljubavi u romanima hrvatske književnosti 19. stoljeća. Razvoj romana i koncepta romantične ljubavi su neraskidivo povezani te se u radu upućuje na tu pojavu. Koncept romantične ljubavi koristi se prema teorijskoj razradi danoj u sociološkoj literaturi, dok se njegove glavne karakteristike pronalaze u analiziranom korpusu tekstova. Korpus rada čine romani Branka A. Šenoe, Melita J. E. Tomića i Posljednji Stipančići V. Novaka.The work analyzes the concept of romantic love in Croatian literature novels of the 19th century. The development of the novels and the concept of romantic love are inseparably linked and the work points to this phenomenon. The concept of romantic love is used according to the theoretical elaboration given in the sociological literature, while its main characteristics are found in the analyzed corpus of texts. The corpus of works consists of novels by Branka A. Šenoa, Melita J. E. Tomić and Posljednji Stipančići by V. Novak