The Melodramatic Imagination

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780231919784
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
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Edition: 1st edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 236
Weight: 10g