Equivocal Endings in Classic American Novels

The Scarlet Letter; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Ambassadors; The Great Gatsby

Joyce A. Rowe (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

172 Seiten

1988
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-33532-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne: 'My Kinsman, Major Molineux': the several voices of independence; 2. Bleak dreams: restriction and aspiration in The Scarlet Letter; 3. Mark Twain's great evasion: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; 4. Strether unbounded: the selective vision of Henry James's Ambassador; 5. Closing the circle: The Great Gatsby; Conclusion: Moby-Dick and our problem with history; Notes; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.2.1988
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	370 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-521-33532-9 / 0521335329
ISBN-13	978-0-521-33532-4 / 9780521335324
Zustand	Neuware