The melodramatic imagination : Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess /

Brooks, Peter, 1938-

The melodramatic imagination : Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess / Peter Brooks. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 1976. - xvi, 235 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

0300020015


Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 --Criticism and interpretation.
James, Henry, 1843-1916 --Criticism and interpretation.


Melodrama.
Romanticism.
Fiction--History and criticism.--19th century