LEADER 03662nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910820193403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-045077-0 010 $a0-19-772436-1 010 $a1-281-71809-2 010 $a9786611718091 010 $a0-19-971353-7 024 7 $a10.1093/oso/9780195338539.001.0001 035 $a(CKB)1000000000541068 035 $a(EBL)415394 035 $a(OCoLC)476242084 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000165821 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11169377 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000165821 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10147030 035 $a(PQKB)10223220 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415394 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10246238 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL171809 035 $a(OCoLC)1406786796 035 $a(StDuBDS)9780197724361 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415394 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000541068 100 $a20070926d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGrotesque relations $emodernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state /$fSusan Edmunds 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2008. 311 $a0-19-533853-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-251) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: "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. 330 8 $aThis work explores the relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the US welfare state. This relationship, which began in the Progressive era, emerged as maternalist reformers developed an inverted discourse of social housekeeping in order to call for state protection and regulation of the home. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDomestic fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPublic welfare$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aGrotesque in literature 606 $aWelfare state in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDomestic fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aPublic welfare$xHistory 615 0$aGrotesque in literature. 615 0$aWelfare state in literature. 676 $a813/.50936 700 $aEdmunds$b Susan$f1961-$01613855 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820193403321 996 $aGrotesque relations$93943364 997 $aUNINA