The Melodramatic Imagination

副标题: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess

ISBN: 9780300065534

出版社: Yale University Press

出版年: 1995-11-29

页数: 251

定价: USD 24.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the 1800s, the author looks at Balzac and Henry James, to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using rhetoric and excess of melodrama.