03723nam 2200721 a 450 991078210960332120230721032927.00-19-772436-11-281-71809-297866117180910-19-971353-7(CKB)1000000000541068(EBL)415394(OCoLC)476242084(SSID)ssj0000165821(PQKBManifestationID)11169377(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000165821(PQKBWorkID)10147030(PQKB)10223220(Au-PeEL)EBL415394(CaPaEBR)ebr10246238(CaONFJC)MIL171809(MiAaPQ)EBC415394(EXLCZ)99100000000054106820070926d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGrotesque relations[electronic resource] modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state /Susan EdmundsOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (269 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-533853-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-251) 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.In this book, Susan Edmunds explores he relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the U.S. welfare state. This relationship, which began in the Progressive era, emerged as maternalist reformers developed an inverted discourse of social housekeeping in order to call for state protection and regulation of the home. Modernists followed suit, turning the genre of domestic fiction inside out in order to represent new struggles on the border between home, market and state. Edmunds uses the work of Djuna Barnes, Jean Toomer, Tillie Olsen, Edna Ferber, Nathanael West, and FlannerAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismDomestic fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryModernism (Literature)United StatesLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPublic welfareUnited StatesHistory20th centuryGrotesque in literatureWelfare state in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Domestic fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryModernism (Literature)Literature and societyHistoryPublic welfareHistoryGrotesque in literature.Welfare state in literature.813/.50936Edmunds Susan1961-1477436MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782109603321Grotesque relations3692611UNINA