Unbuttoning America : a biography of "Peyton Place"

Author

Cameron, Ardis, author.

Title

Unbuttoning America : a biography of "Peyton Place" / Ardis Cameron.

Format

Book

Published

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.

Description

xiv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : small talk
• The novel truth
• The sheep pen murder
• Scenes of writing
• The other side of writing
• The gendered eye
• Sex talk
• The women of Peyton Place
• Excitable fictions
• Epilogue : memento mori.

Subject headings

Metalious, Grace. Peyton Place.
Popular literature--United States--History and criticism.
Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.
Sex in literature.

Genre heading

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

ISBN

9780801453649 (cloth : alk. paper)
080145364X (cloth : alk. paper)