Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 Unbound: 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
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 Unbound: 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
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Equivocal Endings in Classic American NovelsThe Scarlet Letter; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Ambassadors; The Great Gatsby, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1988