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

by Peter Brooks

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231060068
• ISBN13: 9780231060066
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.