Education[edit]

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.

Personal life[edit]

Brooks has five children.[1][5] On July 18, 1959, Brooks married Margaret Elisabeth Waters.[1] On May 12, 2001, Brooks married the law professor, author and commentator, Rosa Brooks.[5] The couple later divorced.[6]

The Novel of Worldliness: Crébillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal (1969)

The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess (1976),  0-300-06553-1

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Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (1984),  0-674-74892-1

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Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative (1993),  0-674-07725-3

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Psychoanalysis and Storytelling (1994),  0-631-19008-2

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Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law (co-editor with , 1996), ISBN 0-300-07490-5

Paul Gewirtz

Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature (2000),  0-226-07585-0

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Whose Freud? The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (co-editor with Alex Woloch) (2000),  0-300-08116-2

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Realist Vision (2005),  0-300-10680-7

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Henry James Goes to Paris (2007),  0-691-12954-1

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Enigmas of Identity (2011),  978-0-691-15158-8

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Anthologie du mélodrame classique (with Myriam Faten Sfar, 2011),  978-2-8124-0328-6

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Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year (2017),  0465096026[7]

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Balzac's Lives (2020),  978-1-68137-449-9

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Seduced by Story (2022),  978-1-68137-663-9

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Emeritus Faculty bio at Yale Comp Lit department

bio at Princeton Comp Lit department