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

The 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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  • Blackwell

    In this lucid and fascinating book, Peter Brooks argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the nineteenth century, he moves on to Balzac and Henry James...

  • 0300065531
  • 9780300065534
  • P Brooks
  • 2 January 1996
  • Yale University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 251
  • New edition
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