Contents

• 1. Introduction: Practising Heterosexuality at Niagara Falls
• 2. "The Pleasure Is Exquisite but Violent": The Imaginary Geography of the Nineteenth Century
• 3. Local Colour in the "Contact Zone": The Spectacle of Race
• 4. The People’s Niagara at the Turn of the Century
• 5. Boom and Bust in the 1920s and 1930s
• 6. "A Laboratory for the Study of Young Love": Honeymoons and Travel to World War II
• 7. Honky-Tonk City: Niagara and the Postwar Travel Boom
• 8. Heterosexuality Goes Public: The Postwar Honeymoon
• 9. Conclusion: The Sublime Becomes Ridiculous