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

By Peter Brooks

Book information

Year
1995
ISBN
0300065531, 9780300065534
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28163611 bytes)
Pages
251\127
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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.

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