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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 13 halftones, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- 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