Grotesque relations modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state /
Edmunds, Susan, 1961-
Grotesque relations modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state / [electronic resource] : Susan Edmunds. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - viii, 258 p.
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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.
Public welfare--History--United States--20th century.
Grotesque in literature.
Welfare state in literature.
Electronic books.
PS374.M535 / E34 2008
813/.50936
Grotesque relations modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state / [electronic resource] : Susan Edmunds. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - viii, 258 p.
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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.
Public welfare--History--United States--20th century.
Grotesque in literature.
Welfare state in literature.
Electronic books.
PS374.M535 / E34 2008
813/.50936