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A finely crafted study built on 20 years of feminist scholarship to show how domestic ritual has helped to shape substance and tone of some of the best fiction by American women.
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Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism, American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism, Women and literature--United States, Home economics in literature, Ritual in literature, Home in literature.
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1992
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PS374.D57R66 1992eb
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810.9/355
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Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism, American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism, Women and literature--United States, Home economics in literature, Ritual in literature, Home in literature.
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The Home Plot
Women, Writing & Domestic Ritual
Ann Romines
The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
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Copyright 1992 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 91-34053 ISBN 0-87023-783-7 (cloth); 794-2 (pbk.) Designed by Edith Kearney Set in Adobe Caslon by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Romines, Ann, 1942 The home plot : women, writing, and domestic ritual / Ann Romines. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-783-7 1. Domestic fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism. 2. American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism. 3. Women and literatureUnited States. 4. Home economics in literature. 5. Ritual in literature. 6. Home in literature. 1. Title. PS 374.D 57R 66 1992 810.9'355dc2091-34053 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. Acknowledgments for permission to reprint material under copyright appear on the last printed page of this book.
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This book is for all the housekeepers of my family, with admiration and with love
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I stack the dishes and I wring the dish-cloth, like mum says; I clean the sink with Rinso, not too much; I shake the mat before the door, I water the geraniumis this being good? mum says, "good girl": I do this not for mum or anyone: I do it for myself; if I go on, I make a sort of track, I can't say what, it's pebbles and hard stones, it's something in a story, I can't say where it goes H.D., from "Sagesse"
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Acknowledgments
For as long as I can remember, my women relatives and friends have been helping me to understand what a rich, complicated, and artful story housekeeping has been for American women. This book began with my own domestic education, at the hands of my mother and grandmothers. Since then, many others have become parts of the process of thinking and writing The Home Plot. A very different version of this project was my doctoral dissertation. George McCandlish served as my first dissertation director; it was he who informed me, to my amazement, that the phenomenon I was finding in women's texts had a name: "domestic ritual." After Professor McCandlish's death, my friend and colleague Robert Ganz provided direction and encouragement.
At George Washington University, my past and present English Department chairpersons, Christopher Sten and Judith Plotz, have been especially helpful as readers and advocates, as have Faye Moskowitz and my fellow housework scholar, Phyllis Palmer of the Department of Women's Studies. I am grateful to the George Washington University Committee on Research and to the Department of English for supporting funds and to the Gelman Library for an undomestic space in which to write. My work has also been sparked and challenged by the responses of my graduate and undergraduate students of the past ten years.
Colleagues at other universities have heard, read, and responded usefully to portions of this book in earlier versions. I am especially endebted to Ann Fisher-Wirth, Josephine Donovan, and Susan Rosowski. At the University of Massachusetts Press, my manuscript found sympathetic and scrupulous editors in Pam Wilkinson and Bruce Wilcox.
Special thanks to my parents, Ruth Rogers Romines and Elmer Romines,
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for their many years of loving support, and to my astute and generous sister, Marilyn Romines, who patiently listened to this book taking shape over many long dinners at her table and mine. I also owe much to the advice and enthusiasm of my dear friend Astere Claeyssens, who helped me submit this book for publication during the last weeks of his life. To everyone who is mentioned here and to many who are not, my thanks and praise.
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