Grotesque relations : modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state /
Edmunds, Susan,1961-
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2008.
Includes bibliography and index.
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.
American fiction
Domestic fiction, American
Politics and literature
Modernism (Literature)
Literature and society
Public welfare
Grotesque in literature.
Welfare state in literature.