Dirty whites and dark secrets
Subtitle: sex and race in Peyton Place
By: Sally Hirsh-Dickinson
Series: Revisiting New England: The new regionalism; Revisiting New England
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781611680416; 9781611680423; 9781611682151
Subjects: In literature; Sex in literature; Race in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dark past, white lies: reconsidering the sources of scandal in Peyton Place; title: The color of incest: sexual abuse, racial anxiety and the 1950s family in Peyton Place; title: Domestic disturbances: rape, race, and Peyton Place; title: The good rapist, the bad rapist, and the abortionist: Peyton Place's crisis of masculinity; title: Home is where the haunt is: domestic space, race and the uncanny.