The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagra Falls - Hardcover

Dubinsky, Karen

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9780813526553: The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagra Falls

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ISBN 10: 0813526558 ISBN 13: 9780813526553

Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr, 1999

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Dubinsky, Karen

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In this provocative history, Karen Dubinsky addresses a deceptively simple question: of all the ways to promote a waterfall as a tourist destination, why honeymoons?

For two centuries Niagara Falls has attracted tourists from around the World. After a visit in 1882 Oscar Wilde sardonically declared that the Falls must be the second greatest disappointment in American married life. Wilde was responding to the peculiar relationship, already well established in his day, between heterosexuality, the honeymoon, and the Falls. Dubinsky explores what it was like not just to visit the Falls but to live and work behind the mists of such celebrity. From Victorian marriage manuals to Marilyn Monroe(and the movie Niagara) she treats the Falls not only as a metaphor and icon, but also as a real place, populated by real people who helped to shape its cultural meaning.

About the Author:

Karen Dubinsky teaches history at Queen's University.

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