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

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

Peter Brooks

251 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

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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 f...

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