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Dirty whites and dark secrets

Hirsh-Dickinson, Sally.

Dirty whites and dark secrets sex and race in Peyton Place / [electronic resource] : Sally Hirsh-Dickinson. - Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xi, 221 p. ) - Revisiting New England: The new regionalism . - Revisiting New England. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dark past, white lies: reconsidering the sources of scandal in Peyton Place -- The color of incest: sexual abuse, racial anxiety and the 1950s family in Peyton Place -- Domestic disturbances: rape, race, and Peyton Place -- The good rapist, the bad rapist, and the abortionist: Peyton Place's crisis of masculinity -- Home is where the haunt is: domestic space, race and the uncanny.

9781611682151 1611682150




Metalious, Grace. Peyton Place.


Race in literature.
Sex in literature.


New England--In literature.


Electronic books.

PS3525.E77 / P434 2011

813/.54