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'''Peter Preston Brooks''' (born 1938)<ref name="Encyclopedia.com-Peter-Preston-Brooks">{{cite web |title=Brooks, Peter 1938– |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/brooks-peter-1938 |website=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=17 April 2021 |quote=Peter Preston Brooks}}</ref> is an American [[literary theorist]] who 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. He was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Peter+Brooks&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=1 July 2021|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book|last=McQuillan|first=Martin|title=Paul de Man|year=2001|isbn=9780415215138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p0M16vk21TYC&q=paul+de+man+peter+brooks+dedication&pg=PA117|access-date=9 May 2012}}</ref>
'''Peter Preston Brooks''' (born 1938)<ref name="Encyclopedia.com-Peter-Preston-Brooks">{{cite web |title=Brooks, Peter 1938– |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/brooks-peter-1938 |website=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=17 April 2021 |quote=Peter Preston Brooks}}</ref> is an American [[literary theorist]] who 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. He was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Peter+Brooks&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=1 July 2021|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book|last=McQuillan|first=Martin|title=Paul de Man|year=2001|publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=9780415215138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p0M16vk21TYC&q=paul+de+man+peter+brooks+dedication&pg=PA117|access-date=9 May 2012}}</ref> His 2022 book ''Seduced By Story'' was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle award in criticism.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Varno |first=David |date=2023-02-01 |title=NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022 |url=https://www.bookcritics.org/2023/01/31/national-book-critics-circle-announces-finalists-for-publishing-year-2022/ |access-date=2023-02-03 |website=National Book Critics Circle |language=en-US}}</ref>


==Education==
==Education==
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== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
Brooks has five children.<ref name="Encyclopedia.com-Peter-Preston-Brooks"/><ref name="scottgsherman-barbaraehrenreich"/> On 18 July 1959, Brooks married Margaret Elisabeth Waters.<ref name="Encyclopedia.com-Peter-Preston-Brooks"/> On 12 May 2001, Brooks married the law professor, author and commentator, [[Rosa Brooks]].<ref name="scottgsherman-barbaraehrenreich">{{cite web |last1=Sherman |first1=Scott |title=Class Warrior |url=http://www.scottgsherman.com/profiles/barbaraehrenreich.php |website=Scott Sherman |access-date=17 April 2021 |quote=Ehrenreich moved to Charlottesville in 2001 to be near her thirty-two-year-old daughter, Rosa, a law professor at the University of Virginia, and her granddaughter, Anna, now two. (She also has a son, Ben, who writes for L.A. Weekly.) When Ehrenreich is in town, she will often, in the late afternoon, get in her Honda Civic — which bears a "Proud to Be An American Against War" bumper sticker — and drive to Rosa's farmhouse on the outskirts of Charlottesville, a place Rosa shares with her husband, the Yale literary critic Peter Brooks, who is currently teaching at UVA.}}</ref> Rosa Brooks remarried.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Smaller, Cheaper, Just-for-Us Wedding|author=Helaine Olen|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/fashion/the-reinvented-wedding-smaller-and-cheaper.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=10 August 2012|accessdate=13 April 2016}}</ref>
Brooks has five children.<ref name="Encyclopedia.com-Peter-Preston-Brooks"/><ref name="scottgsherman-barbaraehrenreich"/> On July 18, 1959, Brooks married Margaret Elisabeth Waters.<ref name="Encyclopedia.com-Peter-Preston-Brooks"/> On May 12, 2001, Brooks married the law professor, author and commentator, [[Rosa Brooks]].<ref name="scottgsherman-barbaraehrenreich">{{cite web |last1=Sherman |first1=Scott |title=Class Warrior |url=http://www.scottgsherman.com/profiles/barbaraehrenreich.php |website=Scott Sherman |access-date=17 April 2021 |quote=Ehrenreich moved to Charlottesville in 2001 to be near her thirty-two-year-old daughter, Rosa, a law professor at the University of Virginia, and her granddaughter, Anna, now two. (She also has a son, Ben, who writes for L.A. Weekly.) When Ehrenreich is in town, she will often, in the late afternoon, get in her Honda Civic — which bears a "Proud to Be An American Against War" bumper sticker — and drive to Rosa's farmhouse on the outskirts of Charlottesville, a place Rosa shares with her husband, the Yale literary critic Peter Brooks, who is currently teaching at UVA.}}</ref> The couple later divorced.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Smaller, Cheaper, Just-for-Us Wedding|author=Olen, Helaine|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/fashion/the-reinvented-wedding-smaller-and-cheaper.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=10 August 2012|accessdate=16 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007022449/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/fashion/the-reinvented-wedding-smaller-and-cheaper.html|archive-date=7 October 2015}}</ref>


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
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* ''Enigmas of Identity'' (2011), {{ISBN|978-0-691-15158-8}}
* ''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}}
* ''Anthologie du mélodrame classique'' (with Myriam Faten Sfar, 2011), {{ISBN|978-2-8124-0328-6}}
* ''Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year'' (2017), {{ISBN|0465096026}}<ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 978-0465096022|title = Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year|last1 = Brooks|first1 = Peter|date = 4 April 2017}}</ref>
* ''Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year'' (2017), {{ISBN|9780465096022}}<ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 978-0465096022|title = Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year|last1 = Brooks|first1 = Peter|date = 4 April 2017| publisher=Basic Books }}</ref>
* ''Balzac's Lives'' (2020), {{ISBN|978-1-68137-449-9}}
* ''Balzac's Lives'' (2020), {{ISBN|978-1-68137-449-9}}
* ''Seduced by Story'' (2022), {{ISBN|978-1-68137-663-9}}



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Latest revision as of 18:27, 16 September 2024

For other people named Peter Brooks, see Peter Brooks (disambiguation).

Peter Preston Brooks (born 1938)[1] is an American literary theorist who 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. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2003.[2] 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.[3] His 2022 book Seduced By Story was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle award in criticism.[4]

Education

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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

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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]

Bibliography

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Books

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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
  • Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year (2017), ISBN 9780465096022[7]
  • Balzac's Lives (2020), ISBN 978-1-68137-449-9
  • Seduced by Story (2022), ISBN 978-1-68137-663-9


Fiction

Papers

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  • Brooks, Peter (1973), "Man and His Fictions: One Approach to the Teaching of Literature", College English, 35 (1): 40–49, doi:10.2307/375195, JSTOR 375195
  • Brooks, Peter (1978), "Godlike Science/Unhallowed Arts: Language and Monstrosity in Frankenstein", New Literary History, 9 (3): 591–605, doi:10.2307/468457, JSTOR 468457
  • Brooks, Peter (1979), "Fictions of the Wolfman: Freud and Narrative Understanding", Diacritics, 9 (1): 71–81, doi:10.2307/464701, JSTOR 464701
  • Brooks, Peter (1980), "Repetition, Repression, and Return: Great Expectations and the Study of Plot", New Literary History, 11 (3): 503–526, doi:10.2307/468941, JSTOR 468941

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Brooks, Peter 1938–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 17 April 2021. Peter Preston Brooks
  2. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  3. ^ McQuillan, Martin (2001). Paul de Man. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780415215138. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
  4. ^ Varno, David (2023-02-01). "NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  5. ^ a b Sherman, Scott. "Class Warrior". Scott Sherman. Retrieved 17 April 2021. Ehrenreich moved to Charlottesville in 2001 to be near her thirty-two-year-old daughter, Rosa, a law professor at the University of Virginia, and her granddaughter, Anna, now two. (She also has a son, Ben, who writes for L.A. Weekly.) When Ehrenreich is in town, she will often, in the late afternoon, get in her Honda Civic — which bears a "Proud to Be An American Against War" bumper sticker — and drive to Rosa's farmhouse on the outskirts of Charlottesville, a place Rosa shares with her husband, the Yale literary critic Peter Brooks, who is currently teaching at UVA.
  6. ^ Olen, Helaine (10 August 2012). "The Smaller, Cheaper, Just-for-Us Wedding". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  7. ^ Brooks, Peter (4 April 2017). Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465096022.
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