The first full-length scholarly study of Peyton Place, Grace Metalious's classic story of New England indiscretion

The first full-length scholarly study of Peyton Place, Grace Metalious's classic story of New England indiscretion

Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction identifies a new genre of American fiction, the rape novel, that recenters narra

In this lively account of the writing, publication, and legacy of the 1956 bestselling novel, "Peyton Place," Ardis Cameron tells how the story of a patricide i

In literature and popular culture, small town America is often idealized as distilling the national spirit. Does the myth of the small town conceal deep-seated