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Author:   Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative Literature, University College London)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781399538381

ISBN 10:   1399538381
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   31 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Rachel Bowlby I. Reading Brooks 1. Afforded by the Plot: Downstream Responses Terence Cave 2. The Critical Imagination Alex Woloch 3. Reading For and Against the Plot David Shields 4. Melodrama or Irony? Aaron Matz II. Brooks Reading 5. Storied by Seduction Janet Beizer 6. Reading with Balzac Martine Reid 7. Reading for the Plot, or Rereading Stendhal in 2023 Susanna Lee 8. Knowledge and its Limitations Ann Jefferson III. Psychoanalysis 9. What Does a Worldly Criticism Mean? Alessia Ricciardi 10. Telling Stories: From Stories to Talking to Metaphor to Narrative Juliet Mitchell 11. Looking After the Reader? Transference, Tutelage and the Novel Sarah Raff IV. Histories 12. Brooks in the Ruins: Flaubert and the Politics of Narrative Maurice Samuels 13. The Fingerprint Story Rachel Bowlby 14. Brooks’s James: A Blind Man in Paris Caroline Weber V. Brooks’s Yale 15. Intellectual Trajectory Peter Brooks 16. Peter Brooks and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Sarah Winter 17. Majoring in Literature David Marshall VI. Disciplinary Stories 18. ‘Confessing’ the Power of Education: Personal Stories in Policy, Advocacy and Fundraising Chiara Benetollo 19. The Stakes of the Plot: Narrative in Law Tal Kastner 20. Prison Term Peter Brooks Index

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These lively, brief but extremely efficient essays by a host of distinguished contributors highlight the range and impact over the years of Peter Brooks's scholarship in the overlapping areas of narrative studies, psychoanalysis and law. Every reader will find something of interest here. -- Jonathan Culler, Cornell University

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Rachel Bowlby is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at University College London. Most recently, she is the author of Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories (2024) and mile Zola: Writing Modern Life (2025).

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