The Melodramatic Imagination : : Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess / / Peter Brooks.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Brooks, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1984]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 1984
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. The Melodramatic Imagination --; 2. The Aesthetics of Astonishment --; 3. The Text of Muteness --; 4. Melodrama and Romantic Dramatization --; 5. Balzac: Representation And Signification --; 6. Henry James And The Melodrama Of Consciousness --; Conclusion: Melodrama, A Central Poetry --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231886413; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/broo91978
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Brooks.

Examines the mode of heightened dramatization inextricably bound up with the modern novel's effort to signify in an attempt to define and sharpen the term 'melodramatic' as it applies to the classic French melodrama as it came to be established after the Revolution in the 19th century.