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

by PBrooks (Author)

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1996
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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.

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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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 251
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 02 Jan 1996
ISBN 10: 0300065531
ISBN 13: 9780300065534