The home plot : women, writing & domestic ritual /
Romines, Ann,1942-
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,
c1992.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-314) and index.
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?".
Domestic fiction, American
American fiction
Women and literature
Home economics in literature.
Ritual in literature.
Home in literature.