By Megan Sanborn Jones
ISBN-10: 0415800595
ISBN-13: 9780415800594
In the late 19th century, melodramas have been amazing leisure for americans. They have been additionally a key discussion board within which components of yank tradition have been represented, contested, and inverted. This booklet focuses particularly at the development of the Mormon villain as rapist, assassin, and Turk in anti-Mormon melodramas. those melodramas illustrated a very spiritual world-view that ruled American existence and promoted the sexually conservative beliefs of the cult of precise womanhood. additionally they tested the bounds of honorable violence, and urged the whiteness of nationwide ethnicity. In investigating the connection among theatre, well known literature, political rhetoric, and spiritual fervor, Megan Sanborn Jones unearths how anti-Mormon melodramas created an area for audiences to visualize a unified American identification.
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In the late 19th century, melodramas have been outstanding leisure for american citizens. They have been additionally a key discussion board during which components of yankee tradition have been represented, contested, and inverted. This ebook focuses particularly at the development of the Mormon villain as rapist, assassin, and Turk in anti-Mormon melodramas.
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