The Melodramatic Imagination : Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess
by
Peter Brooks
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0300065531
ISBN-13
9780300065534
Publisher
Yale University Press
Imprint
Yale University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 29th, 1995
Print length
251 Pages
Weight
384 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.70 x 1.80 cms
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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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