Grotesque relations : modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state / / Susan Edmunds
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| Autore: |
Edmunds Susan <1961->
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| Titolo: |
Grotesque relations : modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state / / Susan Edmunds
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.50936 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2008. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-251) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Grotesque relations |
| ISBN: | 0-19-045077-0 |
| 0-19-772436-1 | |
| 1-281-71809-2 | |
| 9786611718091 | |
| 0-19-971353-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820193403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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