The melodramatic imagination
Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess
Columbia University Press Morningside ed.
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Publication
1985 - Columbia University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
58,750 words, Guess
Page Count
235 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2850363M
- ISBN-100231060068
- OCLC Control Number60169890
- OCLC Control Number10849966
- Library of Congress Control Number84012640
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- Goodreads5614765
- LibraryThing36098
Classifications
- DDC809.3/1
- LCCPN1912 .B7 1985
Description
"In this lucid and fascinating book, Peter Brooks argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the nineteenth century, he moves on to Balzac and Henry James to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using the rhetoric and excess of melodrama - in particular its secularized conflicts of good and evil, salvation and damnation. The Melodramatic Imagination has become a classic work for understanding theater, fiction, and film."--BOOK JACKET.
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