Table of Contents: Grotesque relations

Main Author:	Edmunds, Susan, 1961-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	American fiction > History and criticism. > 20th century Domestic fiction, American > History and criticism. Politics and literature > History > 20th century. > United States Modernism (Literature) > United States. Literature and society > History > 20th century. > United States Public welfare > History > 20th century. > United States Grotesque in literature.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10246238

Table of 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.