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

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

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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.

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