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245 00 a| Famous last words :b| changes in gender and narrative closure /c| edited by Alison Booth ; with an afterword by U.C. Knoepflmacher.;

260 a| Charlottesville :b| University Press of Virginia,c| 1993.;

300 a| viii, 393 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Feminist issues;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

505 0 a| (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.;

650 0 a| English fictionx| Women authorsx| History and criticism.=| ^A75213;

650 0 a| Feminism and literaturez| Great Britainx| History.=| ^A991473;

650 0 a| American fictionx| Women authorsx| History and criticism.=| ^A91477;

650 0 a| Feminism and literaturez| United Statesx| History.=| ^A201068;

650 0 a| Authorshipx| Sex differences.=| ^A273526;

650 0 a| Sex role in literature.=| ^A108205;

650 0 a| Women and literature.=| ^A121473;

650 0 a| Narration (Rhetoric)=| ^A20719;

650 0 a| Closure (Rhetoric)=| ^A128452;

700 1 a| Booth, Alison.=| ^A287890;

830 0 a| Feminist issues (Charlottesville, Va.)=| ^A278642;

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Famous last words : changes in gender and narrative closure / edited by Alison Booth ; with an afterword by U.C. Knoepflmacher.

Other author	Booth, Alison.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1993.
Description	viii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects	English fiction--Women authors. --History and criticism. Feminism and literature--Great Britain. --History. American fiction--Women authors. --History and criticism. Feminism and literature--United States. --History. Authorship--Sex differences. Sex role in literature. Women and literature. Narration (Rhetoric) Closure (Rhetoric)

Series	Feminist issues Feminist issues (Charlottesville, Va.) ^A278642
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.
Contents	(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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	93007084
ISBN	0813914361 (cloth)
ISBN	081391437X (paper)

Famous last words : changes in gender and narrative closure / edited by Alison Booth ; with an afterword by U.C. Knoepflmacher.

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