The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess by Brooks, Peter

The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300065534)

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The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess by Brooks, Peter

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

$33.00
The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess by Brooks, Peter

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

$33.00
Format: Paperback
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This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the 1800s, the author looks at Balzac and Henry James, to show how these realist novelists created fiction using rhetoric and excess of melodrama.

Author: Peter Brooks
ISBN-10: 0300065531
ISBN-13: 9780300065534
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/29/1995
Pages: 251
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.11h x 6.05w x 0.81d

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