Further Reading
- Additional coverage of Robinson's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 116; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 80; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 25; Contemporary Novelists, Ed. 7; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 206; and Literature Resource Center.
- Caplan, Brina, "It Is Better to Have Nothing," Nation 232, no. 5 (7 February 1981): 152. (Caplan praises Robinson's lyrical prose and humor in Housekeeping, but finds shortcomings in the novel's restrictive point of view.)
- Geyh, Paula H., "Burning Down the House? Domestic Space and Feminine Subjectivity in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping," Contemporary Literature 34, no. 1 (spring 1993): 103-23. (Geyh argues that the two sisters in Housekeeping use the act of housekeeping as means to create both symbolic and material boundaries.)
- King, Kristin, "Resurfacings of ‘The Deeps’: Semiotic Balance in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping," Studies in the Novel 28, no. 4 (winter 1996): 565-81. (King examines how Ruth, the protagonist in Housekeeping, exists in both a physical and symbolic reality.)
- Robinson, Marilynne, and Thomas Schaub, "An Interview with Marilynne Robinson," Contemporary Literature 35, no. 2 (summer 1994): 231-51. (Robinson discusses the writing, themes, and characters of Housekeeping, the American literary tradition, and her concern with language, history, democracy, and the environment.)
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