Edmunds, Susan,  1961- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-251) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism.<br/>Politics and literature--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Modernism (Literature)--United States.<br/>Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Public welfare--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Grotesque in literature.<br/>Welfare state in literature.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS374.M535  / E34 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.50936