The Submerged Plot and the Mother's Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy - Paperbackby Kelly a. Marsh (Author) In The Submerged Plot and the Mother's Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy, Kelly A. Marsh examines the familiar, overt plot of the motherless daughter growing into maturity and argues that it is accompanied by a covert plot. Marsh's insightful analyses of nineteenth and twentieth century Anglophone novels reveal that these novels are far richer and more complexly layered than the overt plot alone suggests. According