Second Greatest Disappointment : Honeymooners, Heterosexuality, and the Tourist Industry at Niagara Falls

by Dubinsky, Karen

• ISBN13: 9780813526553
• ISBN10: 0813526558
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Practising Heterosexuality at Niagara Falls	p. 1
"The Pleasure Is Exquisite but Violent": The Imaginary Geography of the Nineteenth Century	p. 19
Local Colour in the "Contact Zone": The Spectacle of Race	p. 55
The People's Niagara at the Turn of the Century	p. 85
Boom and Bust in the 1920s and 1930s	p. 117
"A Laboratory for the Study of Young Love": Honeymoons and Travel to World War II	p. 153
Honky-Tonk City: Niagara and the Postwar Travel Boom	p. 177
Heterosexuality Goes Public: The Postwar Honeymoon	p. 213
Conclusion: The Sublime Becomes Ridiculous	p. 239
Notes	p. 247
Illustration Credits	p. 285
Index	p. 287
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