Equivocal Endings in Classic American Novels: The Scarlet Letter; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Ambassadors; The Great Gatsby

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Cambridge University Press, 1988 M02 18 - 161 páginas
An original approach to four mainstream texts for the study of American literature and the novel in general. It examines the strangely equivocal nature of the vision with which each of them ends, with the central protagonists illogically clinging to their own transcendent image of selfhood.

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Acknowledgments page
1
My Kinsman Major Molineux
14
Restriction and Aspiration
27
Adventures
46
The Selective Vision
75
The Great Gatsby
100
MobyDick and Our Problem with History
127
Index
159
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