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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

1 online resource (viii, 258 p.)

ISBN 0195338537 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780195338539 (cloth : alk. paper)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-251) and index

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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