Carol Dougherty is the Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College, where she has taught for thirty years. She did her undergraduate work in Classics at Stanford University and graduate work at UC Santa Barbara and Princeton University, and has written numerous books and articles on travel and cross-cultural contact in Greek myth and literature.

Travel and Home is a very new sort of book. As much a study of the influence of Homer on contemporary literature as of the influence of contemporary literature on Homer, this book models a dynamic sort of reception using improvisation and nostalgia as its interpretive framework.

• 0: Introduction: Critical Encounters 1: "More Like Odysseus": Playing House in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient 2: "An End to Housekeeping": Mobility and Domesticity in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping 3: "It's Okay": Improvisational Housekeeping in Cormac McCarthy's The Road 4: "This House is Different": Forgetting the Way Home in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier 5: "Come Brother. Let s Go Home": Restorative Nostalgia in Toni Morrison's Home 6: Conclusion: Nostalgic Returns Bibliography Index

Carol Dougherty is the Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College, where she has taught for thirty years. She did her undergraduate work in Classics at Stanford University and graduate work at UC Santa Barbara and Princeton University, and has written numerous books and articles on travel and cross-cultural contact in Greek myth and literature.

Travel and Home is a very new sort of book. As much a study of the influence of Homer on contemporary literature as of the influence of contemporary literature on Homer, this book models a dynamic sort of reception using improvisation and nostalgia as its interpretive framework.

• 0: Introduction: Critical Encounters 1: "More Like Odysseus": Playing House in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient 2: "An End to Housekeeping": Mobility and Domesticity in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping 3: "It's Okay": Improvisational Housekeeping in Cormac McCarthy's The Road 4: "This House is Different": Forgetting the Way Home in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier 5: "Come Brother. Let s Go Home": Restorative Nostalgia in Toni Morrison's Home 6: Conclusion: Nostalgic Returns Bibliography Index

Carol Dougherty is the Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College, where she has taught for thirty years. She did her undergraduate work in Classics at Stanford University and graduate work at UC Santa Barbara and Princeton University, and has written numerous books and articles on travel and cross-cultural contact in Greek myth and literature.

Travel and Home is a very new sort of book. As much a study of the influence of Homer on contemporary literature as of the influence of contemporary literature on Homer, this book models a dynamic sort of reception using improvisation and nostalgia as its interpretive framework.

• 0: Introduction: Critical Encounters 1: "More Like Odysseus": Playing House in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient 2: "An End to Housekeeping": Mobility and Domesticity in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping 3: "It's Okay": Improvisational Housekeeping in Cormac McCarthy's The Road 4: "This House is Different": Forgetting the Way Home in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier 5: "Come Brother. Let s Go Home": Restorative Nostalgia in Toni Morrison's Home 6: Conclusion: Nostalgic Returns Bibliography Index