Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)

by Megan Sanborn Jones (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $40.27

  In the late nineteenth century, melodramas were spectacular entertainment for Americans. They were also a key forum in which elements of American culture were represented, contested, and inverted. This book focuses on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer, and Turk in anti-Mormon melodramas.