Unbuttoning America : : A Biography of "Peyton Place" / / Ardis Cameron.
Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace Metalious, a housewife who grew up i...
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Cameron, Ardis, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Unbuttoning America : A Biography of "Peyton Place" / Ardis Cameron. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (240 p.) : 13 halftones, 1 map text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Small Talk -- 1. The Novel Truth -- 2. The Sheep Pen Murder -- 3. Scenes of Writing -- 4. The Other Side of Writing -- 5. The Gendered Eye -- 6. Sex Talk -- 7. The Women of Peyton Place -- 8. Excitable Fictions -- Epilogue: Memento Mori -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace Metalious, a housewife who grew up in poverty in a New Hampshire mill town and had aspired to be a writer from childhood, loosely based the novel's setting, characters, and incidents on real-life places, people, and events. The novel sold more than 30 million copies in hardcover and paperback, and it was adapted into a hit Hollywood film in 1957 and a popular television series that aired from 1964 to 1969. More than half a century later, the term "Peyton Place" is still in circulation as a code for a community harboring sordid secrets.In Unbuttoning America, Ardis Cameron mines extensive interviews, fan letters, and archival materials including contemporary cartoons and cover images from film posters and foreign editions to tell how the story of a patricide in a small New England village circulated over time and became a cultural phenomenon. She argues that Peyton Place, with its frank discussions of poverty, sexuality, class and ethnic discrimination, and small-town hypocrisy, was more than a tawdry potboiler. Metalious's depiction of how her three central female characters come to terms with their identity as women and sexual beings anticipated second-wave feminism. More broadly, Cameron asserts, the novel was also part of a larger postwar struggle over belonging and recognition. Fictionalizing contemporary realities, Metalious pushed to the surface the hidden talk and secret rebellions of a generation no longer willing to ignore the disparities and domestic constraints of Cold War America. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Books and reading History 20th century United States. Books and reading United States History 20th century. Literature and society History 20th century United States. Literature and society United States History 20th century. Popular literature History and criticism United States. Popular literature United States History and criticism. Sex in literature. Biography & Autobiography. Literary Studies. U.S. History. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110606744 print 9780801453649 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801456107 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801456107 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801456107/original |
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