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. ISBN: 0300020015 Subjects--Personal Names: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 --Criticism and interpretation.James, Henry, 1843-1916 --Criticism and interpretation. Subjects--Topical Terms: Melodrama.Romanticism.Fiction--History and criticism.--19th century