Story/Histoire: Reading with Peter Brooks

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Peter Brooks’s Books

Non-Fiction

The Novel of Worldliness: Crébillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal (1969)
The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess (1976)
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (1984)
Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative (1993)
Psychoanalysis and Storytelling (1994)
Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature (2000)
Realist Vision (2005)
Henry James Goes to Paris (2007)
Enigmas of Identity (2011)
Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year (2017)
Balzac’s Lives (2020)
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative (2022)
Honoré de Balzac (2022)

Fiction