• The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess (Revised)

The Melodramatic Imagination

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ISBN
9780300065534
Binding
Paperback
Authors
Peter Brooks
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication Date
November 29, 1995
Language
English
Pages
251
Physical Info
0.81 in H x 9.11 in L x 6.05 in W (0.99 lb)
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.
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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.

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

The Melodramatic Imagination

$33.00
$33.00
$33.00 item