Question

What literary tradition immediately preceded the novel tradition?

Answer 1

Romance is the literary tradition that immediately preceded the novel tradition.

Romanticism, also refered to as the Romantic era or the Romantic period consists on an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book.

The novel has been seen as having "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years"and originated in classical Greece and Rome, in medieval and early modern romance.

Answer 2

The answer is romance.