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

By Peter Brooks

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780231886413
DOI
10.7312/broo91978
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13514982 bytes)
Pages
236\252
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 20:33:00

Description

Examines the mode of heightened dramatization inextricably bound up with the modern novel's effort to signify in an attempt to define and sharpen the term 'melodramatic' as it applies to the classic French melodrama as it came to be established after the Revolution in the 19th century.

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