Grotesque relations [electronic resource] : modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state / Susan Edmunds.
Material type:
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Public welfare -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Grotesque in literature
- Welfare state in literature
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- PS374.M535 E34 2008eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-251) and index.
Introduction: "As with a startling picture" : modernism and the domestic sphere -- "For she asks forever only help" : the critique of maternalist reform discourse in Djuna Barnes's Ryder -- Tortured bodies and twisted words : the antidomestic vision of Jean Toomer's Cane -- Freaked : eastern European immigration and the "American home" in Edna Ferber's American beauty -- "Not sentimental" : the double bind of white working-class femininity in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio -- Siren calls : consumer revolution and the body beautiful in Nathanael West's The day of the locust -- "Not charity yet!" : state-supported capitalism and the secret life of god in Flannery O'Connor's Wise blood.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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