Peter Brooks (writer)

Peter Brooks (born 1938) 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. (1959) and Ph.D. (1965) 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 (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
• 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

Books, fiction

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

External links

• Emeritus Faculty bio at Yale Comp Lit department
• bio at Princeton Comp Lit department