Melodrama and the Myth of America

by Jeffrey Daniel Mason and Jeffrey D. Mason

Looks at five popular nineteenth-century melodramas that took as their subjects important issues in American life: Metamora and the Indian Question, The Drunkard and the temperance movement, Uncle Tom's Cabin and slavery, My Partner and the American West, and Shenandoah and the Civil War.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253336864
• ISBN13: 9780253336866
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.