The melodramatic imagination
Romantiek
Literature, modern, history and criticism
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Romanticism
Imagination
Criticism and interpretation
History and criticism
Fiction
"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 century, he moves on to Balzac and Henry James to show how these "realist" novelists created ficti…
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