Author:Peter Brooks

Peter Brooks
(1938–)

Works

Non-fiction

• The Novel of Worldliness: Crébillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal (1969)
• The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess (1976), ISBN 0-300-06553-1
• Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (1984), ISBN 0-674-74892-1
• Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative (1993), ISBN 0-674-07725-3
• Psychoanalysis and Storytelling (1994), ISBN 0-631-19008-2
• Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law (co-editor with Paul Gewirtz, 1996), ISBN 0-300-07490-5
• Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature (2000), ISBN 0-226-07585-0
• Whose Freud? The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (co-editor with Alex Woloch) (2000), ISBN 0-300-08116-2
• Realist Vision (2005), ISBN 0-300-10680-7
• Henry James Goes to Paris (2007), ISBN 0-691-12954-1
• No Tomorrow (with Lydia Davis, 2009); original by Vivant Denon
• Enigmas of Identity (2011), ISBN 978-0-691-15158-8
• Anthologie du mélodrame classique (with Myriam Faten Sfar, 2011), ISBN 978-2-8124-0328-6
• Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year (2017), ISBN 0465096026
• Balzac's Lives (2020), ISBN 978-1-68137-449-9
• Seduced by Story (2022), ISBN 978-1-68137-663-9

Fiction

• World Elsewhere (2000), ISBN 0-684-85333-7
• The Emperor's Body (2010), ISBN 0-393-07958-9

Papers

• "Romania and the Widening Gyre" (1972), PMLA, 87 (1): 7–11, doi:10.2307/460779 (JSTOR)
• "Virtue and Terror: The Monk" (1973), ELH, 40 (2): 249–263, doi:10.2307/2872659 (JSTOR)
• "Man and His Fictions: One Approach to the Teaching of Literature" (1973), College English, 35 (1): 40–49, doi:10.2307/375195 {{JSTOR link|375195
• "Structuralist Poetics. Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature by Jonathan Culler" (1976), Diacritics, 6 (1): 23–26, doi:10.2307/465029, ISSN 0300-7162 (JSTOR)
• "Freud's Masterplot" (1977), Yale French Studies (55/56): 280–300, doi:10.2307/2930440 (JSTOR)
• "Godlike Science/Unhallowed Arts: Language and Monstrosity in Frankenstein" (1978), New Literary History, 9 (3): 591–605, doi:10.2307/468457 (JSTOR)
• "Fictions of the Wolfman: Freud and Narrative Understanding" (1979), Diacritics, 9 (1): 71–81, doi:10.2307/464701 (JSTOR)
• "Repetition, Repression, and Return: Great Expectations and the Study of Plot" (1980), New Literary History, 11 (3): 503–526, doi:10.2307/468941 (JSTOR)
• "The Novel and the Guillotine; Or, Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir" (1982), PMLA, 97 (3): 348–362, doi:10.2307/462227 (JSTOR), S2CID 163976852
• "Narrative Transaction and Transference (Unburying "Le Colonel Chabert")" (1982), Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 15 (2): 101–110, doi:10.2307/1345218 (JSTOR)
• "Incredulous Narration: Absalom, Absalom!" (1982), Comparative Literature, 34 (3): 247–268, doi:10.2307/1770556 (JSTOR)
• "The Idea of a Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism" (1987), Critical Inquiry, 13 (2): 334–348, doi:10.1086/448394 (JSTOR)
• "Storied Bodies, or Nana at Last Unveil'd" (1989), Critical Inquiry, 16 (1): 1–32, doi:10.1086/448524 (JSTOR)
• "Aesthetics and Ideology: What Happened to Poetics?" (1994), Critical Inquiry, 20 (3): 509–523, doi:10.1086/448723 (JSTOR)
• "A Beginning in the Humanities" (2000), PMLA, Vol. 115, No. 7, 115 (7): 1955–1957, doi:10.2307/463614 (JSTOR)