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

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1993.

viii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: CMB

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.

Includes bibliographic references and index