Grotesque relations
Subtitle: modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state
By: Susan Edmunds.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780195338539
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "As with a startling picture" : modernism and the domestic sphere; title: "For she asks forever only help" : the critique of maternalist reform discourse in Djuna Barnes's Ryder; title: Tortured bodies and twisted words : the antidomestic vision of Jean Toomer's Cane; title: Freaked : eastern European immigration and the "American home" in Edna Ferber's American beauty; title: "Not sentimental" : the double bind of white working-class femininity in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio; title: Siren calls : consumer revolution and the body beautiful in Nathanael West's The day of the locust; title: "Not charity yet!" : state-supported capitalism and the secret life of god in Flannery O'Connor's Wise blood.