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

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Main Author: Edmunds, Susan, 1961-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
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 literature.
Electronic books.
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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.

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