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  -