Grotesque relations modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state /

Main Author: Edmunds, Susan, 1961-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10246238
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300 |a viii, 258 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-251) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a American fiction  |x History and criticism.  |y 20th century 
650 0 |a Domestic fiction, American  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Politics and literature  |x History  |y 20th century.  |z United States 
650 0 |a Modernism (Literature)  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Literature and society  |x History  |y 20th century.  |z United States 
650 0 |a Public welfare  |x History  |y 20th century.  |z United States 
650 0 |a Grotesque in literature. 
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