About the Author

Peter Brooks is University Professor (English and Law), University of Virginia, and previously was Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Yale University. He is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Reading for the Plot and Troubling Confessions. His books Whose Freud? The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture; Law's Stories; and The Melodramatic Imagination are all available from Yale University Press.

Reviews

"A fine new book. . . . [An] excellent book." James Wood, New Republic
--James Wood "New Republic ""

"A lively and perceptive view of realism in literature, and in particular its emphasis on the visual." Andrew Starner, The American Scholar

--Andrew Starner "The American Scholar ""

Brooks makes these authors come alive. Reading about them and their work is like reading a good novel. This is a culminating text by a real pro, in the best sense of the word. It comes from the heart, but there are years of scholarly work and critical engagement behind it. Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts


--Linda Nochlin"

"Brooks makes these authors come alive. Reading about them and their work is like reading a good novel. This is a culminating text by a real pro, in the best sense of the word. It comes from the heart, but there are years of scholarly work and critical engagement behind it."--Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts
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--Linda Nochlin

"A fine new book. . . . [An] excellent book."--James Wood, "New Republic"
--James Wood "New Republic "

" Brooks makes these authors come alive. Reading about them and their work is like reading a good novel. This is a culminating text by a real pro, in the best sense of the word. It comes from the heart, but there are years of scholarly work and critical engagement behind it." -- Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts