03662nam 2200805 a 450 991082019340332120200520144314.00-19-045077-00-19-772436-11-281-71809-297866117180910-19-971353-710.1093/oso/9780195338539.001.0001(CKB)1000000000541068(EBL)415394(OCoLC)476242084(SSID)ssj0000165821(PQKBManifestationID)11169377(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000165821(PQKBWorkID)10147030(PQKB)10223220(Au-PeEL)EBL415394(CaPaEBR)ebr10246238(CaONFJC)MIL171809(OCoLC)1406786796(StDuBDS)9780197724361(MiAaPQ)EBC415394(EXLCZ)99100000000054106820070926d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGrotesque relations modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state /Susan Edmunds1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (269 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2008.0-19-533853-7 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.This work explores the relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the US 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.Oxford scholarship online.American 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 Susan1961-1613855MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820193403321Grotesque relations3943364UNINA