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Grotesque relations [electronic resource] : modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state / Susan Edmunds.

By: Edmunds, Susan, 1961-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: viii, 258 p. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813/.50936 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.
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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, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.