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

by Peter Brooks

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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
Product Classification: Theatre studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: from c 1900 - Literary studies: plays & playwrights Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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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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