Hints and Guesses : William Gaddis's Fiction of Longing Book

	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	3
Ch. 1	The Recognitions and Wyatt Gwyon's Role as Artist/Forger/Artist	24
	Wyatt's Rejection of Mid-Century Abstraction	24
	Flemish Painting as an Alternative Aesthetic	46
	Forgery, the Substitution of the False for the Real	70
Ch. 2	J R and the Question of That Which Is Worth Doing	83
	Exchange Value as the Societal Ethic	83
	Disorder as Symbolic of a Cultural Vacancy	94
	The Schoolroom, Children and Lost Sheep	106
	Amy Joubert, Edward Bast and the Need for a Larger Trust	116
	That Which Is Worth Doing, or Responding to Ought	129
	Art as a Form of Perfectionist Thinking	134
Ch. 3	Carpenter's Gothic's Bare Ruined Choirs	146
	Things Fall Apart	146
	Conspiracies, or Forcing Things Together	153
	The Complement of Inside and Outside, of Truth and Fiction	161
	Elizabeth and the Desire for Something More	172
	Geology Versus Scientific Creationism	185
	Elizabeth's (and the Novel's) Mediating Hope	195
Ch. 4	A Frolic of His Own: Whose Law? Whose Justice?	201
	Oscar's Version of Natural Law	203
	Judge Crease and the Common Law	217
	Harry and the Justice of What is Right	222
	Christina and the Justice of the Heart	231
	The Pond as Evocative of a More Encompassing Justice	234
Ch. 5	Conclusion	240
	Notes	249
	Works Cited	285
	Index	294