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Melodramatic Imagination Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess

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ISBN-10: 0300065531

ISBN-13: 9780300065534

Edition: 1996

Authors: Peter Brooks

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The author argues here that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. He traces the history of melodrama as a genre, in French popular theatre, and then demonstrates its migration to the novel.
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Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/29/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.29" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 1.188

Peter Brooks is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar at Princeton University. He is the author of many works of literary criticism, including "Henry James Goes to Paris" (Princeton), "Reading for the Plot", "Psychoanalysis and Storytelling", and "Troubling Confessions". He is also the author of two novels, "The Emperor's Body" and "World Elsewhere".

Preface 1995
Preface to the original edition
The Melodramatic Imagination
The Aesthetics of Astonishment
The Text of Muteness
Melodrama and Romantic Dramatization
Balzac: Representation and Signification
Henry James and the Melodrama of Consciousness
Conclusion: Melodrama, A Central Poetry
Notes
Index