Home Plot: Women, Writing, and Domestic Ritual

Romines, Ann

ISBN 10: 0870237942 / ISBN 13: 9780870237942

Published by University of Massachusetts Press, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Home Plot: Women, Writing, and Domestic Ritual
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870237942
• ISBN 13: 9780870237942
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

In this finely crafted study, Ann Romines builds on twenty years of feminist scholarship to show how domestic ritual―the practice and tradition of housekeeping―has helped shape the substance and tone of some of the best fiction by American women. Examining works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Willa Cather, and Eudora Welty, Romines argues that one cannot fully appreciate this writing unless one understands the domestic codes in which it is inscribed.

By reading domestic ritual as a gendered language, Romines seeks to reclaim one of the oldest female traditions―housekeeping―from trivialization and devaluation. In the process, she brings fresh insight to the work of five important American novelists.

About the Author

Ann Romines is associate professor of English at George Washington University.