| Description |
viii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Feminist issues
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Feminist issues (Charlottesville, Va.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 "Experimental Writing": Netta Syrett's realism, 1908-1912 / 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. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- Women authors. |
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Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
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Feminism and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors. |
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Feminism and literature -- United States -- History.
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United States. |
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Authorship -- Sex differences.
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Authorship -- Sex differences. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
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Women and literature.
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Women and literature. |
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Narration (Rhetoric) |
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Closure (Rhetoric)
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Closure (Rhetoric) |
| Added Author |
Booth, Alison.
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| ISBN |
0813914361 cloth |
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081391437X paper |
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