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Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama and the Mode of Excess
Melodramatic Imagination Balzac Henry James Melodrama and the Mode of Excess
Author: 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.
ISBN-13: 9780300020014
ISBN-10: 0300020015
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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