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

by Peter Brooks

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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.

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809.3Literature › modified standard subdivisions › History, description and criticism of more than two literatures › Fiction

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PN1912.B7Language and Literature › Literature (General) › Literature (General) › Drama › Special types

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