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Book

Unbuttoning America : a biography of "Peyton Place"

Call Number

  • 813 M5875C (CEN)

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Publication Information

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.

Physical Description

xiv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

  • Introduction : small talk
  • The novel truth
  • The sheep pen murder
  • Scenes of writing
  • The other side of writing
  • The gendered eye
  • Sex talk
  • The women of Peyton Place
  • Excitable fictions
  • Epilogue : memento mori.

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