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Media type:
Book
Title:
Grotesque relations
:
modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state
Contains:
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
Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
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