Courtly gallant novel

In contrast to the gallant novel , the courtly gallant novel is above all a construct of Germanistic literary historiography of the 20th century. One speaks of the "courtly gallant novel" mostly where one wants to contain debates about the broad production of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The “courtly gallant novel” restricts the view to novels that are similar in structure to the so-called “courtly novel of the baroque”, but already show the gallant ideal.

Chapters in literary stories that mention the “courtly gallant novel” mostly use it for the general thesis that the novel around 1700 was little more than a final expression of the high baroque novel: a novel that produced nothing new except the gallant. Any such assertion is negligent as soon as it ignores the wide range of novels from the early 18th century, which were by no means confined to the court in terms of subjects.

In more detail on the novel around 1700, the articles Roman , Galant and Galanter Roman .