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Introduction: As With a Startling Picture: Modernism and the Domestic Sphere 1. 'For She Asks Forever Only Help': The Critique of Maternalist Reform Discourse in Djuna Barnes's Ryder 2. Tortured Bodies and 'Twisted Words': The Antidomestic Vision of Jean Toomer's Cane 3. Southeastern European Immigration and the 'American Home' in Edna Ferber's American Beauty 4. Not Sentimental: The Double Bind of White Working-Class Femininity in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio 5. Siren Calls: Consumer Revolution and the Body Beautiful in Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust 6. 'Not Charity Yet!': State-Supported Capitalism and the Secret Life of God in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood Notes Bibliography

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