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]
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
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),
ISBN0-300-06553-1
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (1984),
ISBN0-674-74892-1
Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative (1993),
ISBN0-674-07725-3
Brooks, Peter (1973), "Man and His Fictions: One Approach to the Teaching of Literature", College English, 35 (1): 40–49,
doi:
10.2307/375195,
JSTOR375195
"Structuralist Poetics. Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature by Jonathan Culler", Diacritics, 6 (1): 23–26, 1976,
doi:
10.2307/465029,
ISSN0300-7162,
JSTOR465029
Brooks, Peter (1978), "Godlike Science/Unhallowed Arts: Language and Monstrosity in Frankenstein", New Literary History, 9 (3): 591–605,
doi:
10.2307/468457,
JSTOR468457
Brooks, Peter (1979), "Fictions of the Wolfman: Freud and Narrative Understanding", Diacritics, 9 (1): 71–81,
doi:
10.2307/464701,
JSTOR464701
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,
JSTOR468941
Brooks, Peter (1982), "The Novel and the Guillotine; Or, Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir", PMLA, 97 (3): 348–362,
doi:
10.2307/462227,
JSTOR462227,
S2CID163976852
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abSherman, 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.
^Brooks, Peter (4 April 2017). Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year. Basic Books.
ISBN978-0465096022.