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    Peter Brooks

    Peter Brooks has written extensively about the nineteenth-century novel, French and English. His books include The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess; Reading for the Plot, Body Work, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling and The Emperor's Body: A Novel. After many years on the faculty at Yale University, he currently teaches at Princeton University.

    Peter Brooks

    Peter Brooks has written extensively about the nineteenth-century novel, French and English. His books include The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess; Reading for the Plot, Body Work, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling and The Emperor's Body: A Novel. After many years on the faculty at Yale University, he currently teaches at Princeton University.

    Books by Peter Brooks

    • The Emperor's Body: A Novel

      Peter Brooks

      Hardback, 2011

      Napoleon, twenty years dead, rises like a phoenix over the politics of France and the destinies of three lovers.

    • The Emperor's Body: A Novel

      Peter Brooks

      E Book, 2011

      Napoleon, twenty years dead, rises like a phoenix over the politics of France and the destinies of three lovers.

    • Père Goriot: A Norton Critical Edition

      Honore de Balzac, Peter Brooks, Burton Raffel

      First Edition, Paperback, 1998

      The text is that of Burton Raffell’s acclaimed 1994 translation.

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