Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Peyton Place, USA
- One American Opera at Mid-Century
- Two A Conniving Gold Digger: Elizabeth “Baby Doe” Tabor
- Three A “Really Vicious Monster”: Lizzie Andrew Borden
- Four A Chaste White Woman: Laurie Moss
- Five A Dangerous Jezebel: Susannah Polk
- Epilogue: “The World So Wide”— Beyond the Virgin or the Whore in the Twenty-First Century
- Bibliography
- Index
Dedication
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Peyton Place, USA
- One American Opera at Mid-Century
- Two A Conniving Gold Digger: Elizabeth “Baby Doe” Tabor
- Three A “Really Vicious Monster”: Lizzie Andrew Borden
- Four A Chaste White Woman: Laurie Moss
- Five A Dangerous Jezebel: Susannah Polk
- Epilogue: “The World So Wide”— Beyond the Virgin or the Whore in the Twenty-First Century
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Women in American Operas of the 1950sUndoing Gendered Archetypes, pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2023