TY - BOOK AU - Edmunds,Susan ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Grotesque relations: modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state AV - PS374.M535 E34 2008eb U1 - 813/.50936 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Domestic fiction, American KW - Politics and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Literature and society KW - Public welfare KW - Grotesque in literature KW - Welfare state in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10246238 ER -