The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess
Book Details
Author(s)
Peter Brooks
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0300065531
ISBN-13
9780300065534
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Sales Rank
#753,276
Category
Psychology
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Description
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.
