Peter Brooks

Peter Brooks is a literary critic and author of several books of nonfiction, including The Melodramatic Imagination, Reading for the Plot, Henry James Goes to Paris, which won the Christian Gauss Award, and Seduced by Story, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is professor emeritus at Yale.

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