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The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess New edition
Peter Brooks
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The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess New edition
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.
251 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | November 29, 1995 |
| ISBN13 | 9780300065534 |
| Publishers | Yale University Press |
| Pages | 251 |
| Dimensions | 157 × 235 × 18 mm · 384 g |
| Language | English |
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