Peter Brooks
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Peter Brooks (born 1938) is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. He is formerly Professor in the Department of English and School of Law at the University of Virginia. Brooks is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work cuts across French and English literature, Law, and psychiatry.
His books include the recently published Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature (2000); Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law (co-editor with Paul Gewirtz, 1996); Psychoanalysis and Storytelling (1994); Body Work (1993); Reading for the Plot (1984); The Melodramatic Imagination (1976); and The Novel of Worldliness (1969).
