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

ISBN-13: 9780300065534 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 251 str.

Peter Brooks

Opis

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.