Peter Brooks
Encyclopedia
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 is formerly 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's Humanities Center at Yale University. Brooks is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work cuts across French and English literature, law, and psychoanalysis.
) as a Marshall Scholar and at the University of Paris
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Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
and Andrew W. Mellon Scholar in the department of Comparative Literature and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. He is formerly Professor in the Department of English and School of Law at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
. Among his many accomplishments is the founding of the Whitney's Humanities Center at Yale University. Brooks is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work cuts across French and English literature, law, and psychoanalysis.
Education
Brooks obtained both his B.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1965) from Harvard. He also studied at University College, London (UCLUniversity College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
) as a Marshall Scholar and at the University of Paris
University of Paris
The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...
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Books, 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 0300065531
- Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (1984) ISBN 0674748921
- Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative (1993) ISBN 0674077253
- Psychoanalysis and Storytelling (1994) ISBN 0631190082
- Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law (co-editor with Paul GewirtzPaul GewirtzPaul D. Gewirtz is the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School and the Director of the China Law Center at Yale.-Biography:...
, 1996) ISBN 0300074905 - 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 0300106807
- Henry James Goes to Paris (2007) ISBN 0691129541
- "Enigmas of Identity" (2011) ISBN 9780691151588
Books, fiction
- "World Elsewhere" (2000) ISBN 0684853337
- "The Emperor's Body" (2010) ISBN 0393079589