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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Dark Past, White Lies: Reconsidering the Sources of Scandal in Peyton Place 20 2. The Color of Incest: Sexual Abuse, Racial Anxiety, and the 1950s Family in Peyton Place 47 3. Domestic Disturbances: Rape, Race, and Peyton Place 74 4. The Good Rapist, the Bad Rapist, and the Abortionist: Peyton Place’s Crisis of Masculinity 99 5. Home Is Where the Haunt Is: Domestic Space, Race, and the Uncanny 131 Conclusion 172 Notes 179 Works Cited 199 Index 211 ...

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