The Melodramatic Imagination

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

von Peter Brooks

251 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Yale University Press
• ISBN: 9780300065534
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.11.1995
• Größe: 237 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Yale University Press