Famous last words : changes in gender and narrative closure
In this collection of essays on women's relations to novelistic endings, the authors discuss the study of narrative, the changes in gender roles and cultural traditions since the Victorians, and the interaction of fictional forms and ideology from the mid-19th century to the present.
Print Book, English, 1993
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1993
Aufsatzsammlung
viii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780813914367, 9780813914374, 0813914361, 081391437X
27727045
Introduction: The sense of few endings / Alison Booth
Clytemnestra rewarded: The double conclusion of Vanity Fair / Lisa Jadwin
Aurora Leigh: Epic solutions to novel ends / Herbert F. Tucker
"Reader, my story ends with freedom": Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Sharon Davie
The silence of great men: Statuesque femininity and the ending of Romola / Alison Booth
"Speaking like a woman": How to have the last word on Sylvia's Lovers / Christine L. Krueger
George Eliot's sacred chest of language / Bonnie Zimmerman. (cont.) Unsettled frontiers: Race, history, and romance in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces / Carla L. Peterson
Object lessons: Reading the museum in The Golden Bowl / Stephen D. Arata
"The word which made all clear": The silent close of The House of Mirth / Shari Benstock
Toward a redefinition of "experiemental writing": Netta Syrett's realism, 1908-12 / Ann Ardis
Reading the endings in Katherine Anne Porter's "Old Mortality" / Suzanne W. Jones
Burning down the house: The revisionary paradigm of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Caroline Rody
"Reader, I blew him away": Convention and transgression in Sue Grafton / Peter J. Rabinowitz
Afterword: Endings as beginnings / U.C. Knoepflmacher