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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.

Title Grotesque relations : modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state / Susan Edmunds. [electronic resource]
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Oxford : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2023
Notes Previously issued in print: 2008.
Includes bibliography and index.
English
Content 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.
Series Oxford scholarship online
Extent 1 online resource (269 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010715021805171
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