Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama

By Megan Sanborn Jones

Book Overview

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 Mormon villain in anti-Mormon melodramas and analyses what these melodramas reveal about American identity in the nineteenth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041584987X
• ISBN13: 9780415849876
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"