By Megan Sanborn Jones
ISBN-10: 0415800595
ISBN-13: 9780415800594
In the late 19th century, melodramas have been brilliant leisure for american citizens. They have been additionally a key discussion board during which parts of yank tradition have been represented, contested, and inverted. This e-book focuses in particular at the building of the Mormon villain as rapist, assassin, and Turk in anti-Mormon melodramas. those melodramas illustrated a very spiritual world-view that ruled American lifestyles and promoted the sexually conservative beliefs of the cult of precise womanhood. in addition they tested the boundaries of honorable violence, and recommended the whiteness of nationwide ethnicity. In investigating the connection among theatre, renowned literature, political rhetoric, and spiritual fervor, Megan Sanborn Jones unearths how anti-Mormon melodramas created an area for audiences to visualize a unified American id.
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