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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.

American fiction --- Domestic fiction, American --- Politics and literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Literature and society --- Public welfare --- Grotesque in literature. --- Welfare state in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Domestic fiction [American ] --- United States --- Grotesque in literature --- Welfare state in literature --- Barnes, Djuna --- Toomer, Jean --- Ferber, Edna --- Olsen, Tillie