Barrett, Laura. “’ [T]he ungraspable phantom of life’: Incompletion and Abjection in Moby Dick and Housekeeping.” South Atlantic Review Vol. 73, No. 3 (Summer 2008): 1-22.  https://ezproxy.kpu.ca:2443/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27784793

Burke, William M. “Border Crossings in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.” Modern Fiction Studies Vol. 37, No. 4 (Winter 1991): 716-24. https://ezproxy.kpu.ca:2443/login?url=http://muse.jhu.edu/article/243403

Caver, Christine. “Nothing Left to Lose:  Housekeeping’s Strange Freedoms.” American Literature Vol. 68 No. 4 (March 1996): 111-37. https://ezproxy.kpu.ca:2443/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2927543

Galehouse, Maggie. “Their Own Private Idaho: Transience in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.” Contemporary Literature Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring 2000): 117-37. https://ezproxy.kpu.ca:2443/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1208966

Kaivola, Karen. “The Pleasures and Perils of Merging: Female Subjectivity in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.” Contemporary Literature Vol. 34 No. 4 (Winter 1993): 670-90.

Lassner, Phyllis. “Escaping the Mirror of Sameness: Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.”  Mother Puzzles: Daughters and Mothers in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Mickey Pearlman. Contributions in Women’s Studies 111. New York: Greenwood, 1989: 49-58. (not full text at KPU)

Ravitts, Martha. “Extending the American Range: Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.” American Literature 61 (1989): 644-66.   https://ezproxy.kpu.ca:2443/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2926999

Erika Spohrer, “Translating from Language to Image in Bill Forsyth’s Housekeeping.” Mosaic 34:3 (Sept. 2001): 55-71.  https://ezproxy.kpu.ca:2443/login?url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A78575557/CPI?u=kwantlenuc_lib&sid=CPI&xid=3d292459

Tyndall, Paul and Fred Ribkoff. “Loss, Longing, and the Optative Mode in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping:  On the Spiritual Value of Ruth’s Wandering Narrative.” Renascence Vol. LXVI, No. 2 (Spring 2014): 87-102.  https://ezproxy.kpu.ca:2443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=96403942&site=ehost-live&scope=site

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