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

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:viii, 258 p.
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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.