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The Melodramatic Imagination

Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess

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An edition of The melodramatic imagination (1976)

The Melodramatic Imagination

Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess

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  • 2 Want to read

"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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Yale University Press
Language
English
Pages
251

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Subjects

History and criticism, Melodrama, Criticism and interpretation, Romanticism, Fiction, Imagination, Creation (literary, artistic, etc.), Literature, modern, history and criticism, Literaire esthetiek, Melodrama's, Romantiek

People

Henry James (1843-1916), Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

Times

19th century

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Cover of: The Melodramatic Imagination
The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess
November 29, 1995, Yale University Press
Paperback in English
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The melodramatic imagination: Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess : with a new preface
1995, Yale University Press
in English
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The melodramatic imagination: Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess
1985, Columbia University Press
in English - Columbia University Press Morningside ed.
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The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James and the Mode of Excess
December 20, 1984, Columbia University Press
Paperback in English
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Cover of: The melodramatic imagination
The melodramatic imagination: Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess
1976, Yale University Press
in English
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Paperback
Number of pages
251
Dimensions
9.1 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
Weight
12 ounces

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OL9539559M
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0300065531
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9780300065534
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36098
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