Peter Brooks (writer)
Peter Brooks is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University and Andrew W. Mellon Scholar in the department of Comparative Literature and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He has been Professor in the Department of English and School of Law at the University of Virginia. Among his many accomplishments is the founding of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. Brooks is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work cuts across French and English literature, law, and psychoanalysis. He was influenced by fellow Yale scholar, Paul de Man, to whom his book Reading for the Plot is dedicated.Education
Brooks obtained his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He also studied at University College, London as a Marshall Scholar, and at the University of Paris.Books
;Non-fiction
- The Novel of Worldliness: Crébillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal
- The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess
- Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
- Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative
- Psychoanalysis and Storytelling
- Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law
- Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature
- Whose Freud? The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture
- Realist Vision
- Henry James Goes to Paris
- Enigmas of Identity
- Anthologie du mélodrame classique
- Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year
;Fiction
- "World Elsewhere"
- "The Emperor's Body"
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