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Author:

Romines, Ann, 1942-

Title:

The home plot : women, writing & domestic ritual / Ann Romines.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

c1992

Description:

x, 319 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Cather, Willa,--1873-1947.
Freeman, Mary Wilkins.
Jewett, Sarah Orne,--1849-1909.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,--1811-1896
Welty, Eudora,--1909-
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism.
Home economics in literature.
Home in literature.
Ritual in literature.
Women and literature--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-314) and index.

Contents:

False starts and false endings : Stowe, Jewett, realism, and housekeeping -- The country of the pointed firs : claiming the Sibyl's text -- Freeman's repetitions : the housekeeper and her plot -- Willa Cather : repudiating home plots -- Willa Cather and women's culture : "Now I know" -- Welty's beginnings : housekeeping and the other way to live -- Welty and the dynamo in the house : "Why keep it up, old woman?".

ISBN:

9780870237942
0870237942
9780870237836
0870237837

OCLC:

(OCoLC)24468436

LCCN:

91034053

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)