Grotesque relations modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state / Susan Edmunds.
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2008.
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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.