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

Peter Brooks

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publish Date: Nov 29th, 1995
  • Pages: 251
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.11in - 6.05in - 0.81in - 0.99lb
  • EAN: 9780300065534
  • Categories: GeneralCreative Ability