https://groups.google.com/g/standardebooks/search?q=bridgehead

https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.1.1/7-high-level-structural-patterns#7.2.10

https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.0/bridgehead.html

https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/4126/what-are-chapter-summary-phrases-called

https://badgermum.blogspot.com/2024/01/spoilers.html

https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/4126/what-are-chapter-summary-phrases-called

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_(literature)

https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/25442/is-there-a-term-for-the-short-summary-at-the-beginning-of-a-chapter-in-a-novel

Bridgeheads aka Chapter Summary Phrases aka Arguments

Books with Bridgeheads

Far from the Madding Crowd

Chapter II. Night: The Flock: An Interior: Another Interior.

William Cullen Bryant's translation of The Iliad

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/homer/the-iliad/william-cullen-bryant/text/book-1 Book I

The Contention of Achilles and Agamemnon

The visit of Chryses, Priest of Apollo, to Agamemnon, asking the ransom of his daughter⁠—Refusal of Agamemnon⁠—A pestilence sent by Apollo upon the Greek army⁠—A Council called by Achilles⁠—The cause of the pestilence declared by the Seer Calchas⁠—Dispute between Agamemnon and Achilles, which ends with the taking away of Briseis from Achilles⁠—The daughter of Chryses restored to him⁠—Visit of Thetis to Jupiter, who promises to avenge Achilles⁠—Mutual chiding of Jupiter and Juno.

The Divine Comedy

The Origin of Species?

The Phantom of the Opera?

The Aeneid?

The Odyssey?