L’Imagination mélodramatique

Balzac, Henry James, le mélodrame et le mode de l’excès

By (author) Peter Brooks Translated by Myriam Faten Sfar Translated by Emmanuel Saussier Series edited by Pierre Glaudes Series edited by Paolo Tortonese

Book cover: L’Imagination mélodramatique

Extent: 261 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Series: Etudes romantiques et dix-neuviemistes

Series volume number: 11

Language: French

Hardback (Published)

(June 2026)

ISBN: 9782406210184

6.18 x 9.45 inches

Price: $123.00

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Peter Brooks shows the extent to which the logic of melodrama survives in the novel and by what means it does so, with its elemental violence, its emotional impact, its radicalisation of the alternative between salvation and damnation.

  • By (author) Peter Brooks
  • Translated by Myriam Faten Sfar
  • Translated by Emmanuel Saussier
  • Series edited by Pierre Glaudes
  • Series edited by Paolo Tortonese