Unbuttoning America
A Biography of "Peyton Place"
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Format: Book
Description: xiv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Describes how the 1956 novel became a best-selling book and cultural phenomenon, discussing how and why the unprecedentedly frank portrayal of murder, sex, and small-town hypocrisy struck a chord with Cold War Americans.
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.
Subjects:
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.
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.
ISBN:
9780801453649 (cloth : alk. paper)
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LITERATURE Met | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-210) and index.