author = { Edmunds, Susan },

title = { Grotesque relations modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state },

publisher = {Oxford University Press},

isbn = {9780195338539},

keywords = { 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 , American fiction History and criticism 20th century , Politics and literature History 20th century United States , Literature and society History 20th century United States , Public welfare History 20th century United States , USA , Roman , Häuslichkeit Motiv , Wohlfahrtsstaat , Geschichte 1900-2000 },

year = {2008},

abstract = {Includes bibliographical references and index},

abstract = {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 -- Southeastern 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},

address = { Oxford [u.a.] },