Performing American identity in anti-Mormon melodrama
By: by Megan Sanborn Jones.
Series: Studies in American popular history and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415800594
Subjects: Mormons in literature; Melodrama, American -- History and criticism; American drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Outside/inside America; title: The Christian melodramatic mode; title: Rapists : the sexual fantasy of polygamy; title: Murderers : the necessity of honorable violence; title: Turks : appropriating ethnicity; title: The paradox of identity.