Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama and the Mode of Excess Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

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.Read More

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  • 0300020015
  • 9780300020014
  • Peter Brooks
  • 1 September 1976
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
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