INDEX

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. ONE. George Eliot and the “Finale” of Middlemarch 20
6. TWO. Closure in Bleak House 37
7. THREE. “Open” and “Closed” Form in War and Peace 61
8. FOUR. Communal Themes and the Outer Frame of The Scarlet 80
9. FIVE. Discomforting the Reader: The Confrontational Endings of Vanity Fair and L'Education sentimentale 101
10. SIX. James's Sense of an Ending: the Role Played in its Development by James's Ideas about Nineteenth-Century Endings 121
11. SEVEN. Gesture and the Ending of The Golden Bowl 143
12. EIGHT. Story-Telling as Affirmation at the End of Light in August 157
13. NINE. Virginia Woolf, the Vision of The Waves, and the Novel's Double Ending 176
14. CONCLUSION 198
15. NOTES 211
16. BIBLIOGRAPHY 225
17. INDEX 233