All Formats & Editions
The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry Jam...
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"...
Melodramatic Imagination
The melodramatic imagination: Balzac, Henry Jam...
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"...
![L'Imagination Melodramatique: Balzac, Henry Jam... [French] 2812402008 Book Cover](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/318gRB5dZ+L._SL500_.jpg)
L'Imagination Melodramatique: Balzac, Henry Jam... [French]
Peter Brooks shows the extent to which the logic of melodrama survives in the novel and by what means it does so, with its elemental violence, its emotional impact, its radicalisation of the alternative between salvation and damnation.
ThriftBooks ® and the ThriftBooks ® logo are registered trademarks of Thrift Books Global, LLC
