Peter Brooks

Peter Brooks (born 1938) is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University and from 2008-2014 Mellon Visiting Professor 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 psychiatry.

Education

Brooks obtained both his B.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1965) from Harvard.

Books

* "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 Gewirtz, 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

Papers

* Citation
title=Romania and the Widening Gyre
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=PMLA
volume=87
issue=1
pages=7-11
date=1972
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8129(197201)87%3A1%3C7%3ARATWG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
access-date=2008-02-24

* Citation
title=Virtue and Terror: The Monk
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=ELH
volume=40
issue=2
pages=249-263
date=1973
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304(197322)40%3A2%3C249%3AVATTM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
access-date=2008-02-24

* Citation
title=Man and His Fictions: One Approach to the Teaching of Literature
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=College English
volume=35
issue=1
pages=40-49
date=1973
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-0994(197310)35%3A1%3C40%3AMAHFOA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
access-date=2008-02-24

* Citation
title=Structuralist Poetics. Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature by Jonathan Culler
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=Diacritics
volume=6
issue=1
pages=23-26
date=1976
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0300-7162(197621)6%3A1%3C23%3ACR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
access-date=2008-02-24

* Citation
title=Freud's Masterplot
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=Yale French Studies
volume=55/56
pages=280-300
date=1977
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0044-0078(1977)55%2F56%3C280%3AFM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G
access-date=2008-02-23

* Citation
title=Godlike Science/Unhallowed Arts: Language and Monstrosity in Frankenstein
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=New Literary History
volume=9
issue=3
pages=591-605
date=1978
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0028-6087(197821)9%3A3%3C591%3AGSALAM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
access-date=2008-02-24

* Citation
title=Fictions of the Wolfman: Freud and Narrative Understanding
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=Diacritics
volume=9
issue=1
pages=71-81
date=1979
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0300-7162(197921)9%3A1%3C71%3AFOTWFA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5
access-date=2008-02-23

* Citation
title=Repetition, Repression, and Return: Great Expectations and the Study of Plot
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=New Literary History
volume=11
issue=3
pages=503-526
date=1980
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0028-6087(198021)11%3A3%3C503%3ARRARGE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
access-date=2008-02-24

* Citation
title=The Novel and the Guillotine; Or, Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=PMLA
volume=97
issue=3
pages=348-362
date=1982
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8129(198205)97%3A3%3C348%3ATNATGO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U
access-date=2008-02-24

* Citation
title=Narrative Transaction and Transference (Unburying "Le Colonel Chabert")
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction
volume=15
issue=2
pages=101-110
date=1982
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0029-5132(198224)15%3A2%3C101%3ANTAT(%22%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
access-date=2008-02-24

* Citation
title=Incredulous Narration: Absalom, Absalom!
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=Comparative Literature
volume=34
issue=3
pages=247-268
date=1982
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-4124(198222)34%3A3%3C247%3AINAA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D
access-date=2008-02-24

* Citation
title=The Idea of a Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=Critical Inquiry
volume=13
issue=2
pages=334-348
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0093-1896(198724)13%3A2%3C334%3ATIOAPL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H
date=1987
access-date=2008-02-23

* Citation
title=Storied Bodies, or Nana at Last Unveil'd
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=Critical Inquiry
volume=16
issue=1
pages=1-32
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0093-1896(198923)16%3A1%3C1%3ASBONAL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P
date=1989
access-date=2008-02-24

* Citation
title=Aesthetics and Ideology: What Happened to Poetics?
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=Critical Inquiry
volume=20
issue=3
pages=509-523
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0093-1896(199421)20%3A3%3C509%3AAAIWHT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2
date=1994
access-date=2008-02-23

* Citation
title=A Beginning in the Humanities
last=Brooks
first=Peter
journal=PMLA
volume=115
issue=7
pages=1955-1957
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8129(200012)115%3A7%3C1955%3AABITH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q
date=2000
access-date=2008-02-24

External links

* [http://www.yale.edu/complit/brooks.html Faculty bio at Yale Comp Lit department]