The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess
Hardback Published on: 02/03/1984
Price: £64.00
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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.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- ISBN: 9780231919784
- Number of pages: 236
- Weight: 10g
- Languages: English
