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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Brooks, Peter

Titel

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

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY : Columbia University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[1984]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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