Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama

by Megan Sanborn Jones

Book Overview

In the late nineteenth century, melodramas were spectacular entertainment for Americans. They were also a key forum in which elements of American culture were represented, contested, and inverted. This book focuses specifically on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer, and Turk in anti-Mormon melodramas. These melodramas illustrated a particularly religious world-view that dominated American life and promoted the sexually conservative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041584987X
• ISBN13: 9780415849876
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"