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

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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 to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using the rhetoric and excess of melodrama - in particular its secularized conflicts of good and evil, salvation and damnation. The Melodramatic Imagination has become a classic work for understanding theater, fiction, and film.

Language: English

Pages: 251

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: November 29, 1995

ISBN: 0300065531

ISBN 13: 9780300065534

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

Peter Brooks

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Language: English

Pages: 251

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: November 29, 1995

ISBN: 0300065531

ISBN 13: 9780300065534

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