gomberville

Updated: May 21, 2025

Unhappily for them, the characters of heroic romance have found in that endless desert of phraseology at once their birthplace and their tomb. The works of Gomberville, Calprenède, and Scudéri, although little adapted to the English taste, shared the favor which was extended to every thing French, and were both translated and imitated.

Bayard Tuckerman - A History of English Prose Fiction

The custom of inserting letters in the course of the story was, as has already been indicated, a heritage from the times of Gomberville, La Calprenède, and the Scudérys when miscellaneous material of all sorts from poetry to prosy conversations was habitually used to diversify the narrative. Mrs. Haywood, however, employed the letter not to ornament but to intensify.

George Frisbie Whicher - The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood

With Mlle. de Scudéry "we have substance, real character painting, true psychological penetration, and realism in observation," while previously the novel, under such men as Gomberville and La Calprenède, was imaginative and full of fancy.

Hugo P. (Hugo Paul) Thieme - Women of Modern France

With the pensions and fashions which were sent across the Channel from the court of Louis XIV, came a curious species of fiction which had a temporary vogue in England. Gomberville, Scudéri, and Calprenède had created the school of Heroic Romance by the publication of those monumental works which the French not inaptly termed "les romans de longue haleine."

Bayard Tuckerman - A History of English Prose Fiction