Adams, Emory Sherwood2017-09-202017-09-201898http://hdl.handle.net/2097/37376Citation: Adams, Emory Sherwood. Origin of romantic fiction. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1898.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: Fabulous narrative, like almost every one of the arts of man, originated in the desire of rendering the great more vast, the rich more splendid, and the gay more beautiful. It removed, as it were, from the hands of fortune, the destinies of mankind, rewarded virtue and valor with success, and covered treachery and baseness with opprobrium.The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.NarrativeFortuneMankindTextThesesManuscripts (documents)