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Professor Peter Brooks FBA

Comparative literature, mainly French & English; Stendhal, Balzac, Henry James; the novel and its analysis; psychoanalysis and literary study; law and literature; identity in modern culture
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2010
Subjects
Literature
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830
Website
https://complit.yale.edu/people/peter-brooks
http://www.princeton.edu/complit/people/display_person.xml?netid=brooksp&display=Faculty

Current post

Yale University Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature

Princeton University Andrew W Mellon Foundation Scholar in the University Center for Human Values and the Department of Comparative Literature

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