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CALIFORNIA AND THE FICTIONS OF CAPITAL
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By: |
George L. Henderson |
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Hardback |

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ISBN 10: |
0195108906 |
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9780195108903 |
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Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
Pub. date: |
1 October, 1998 |
Series: |
Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture |
Pages: |
294 |
Description: |
California and the Fictions of Capital analyses the geographical imagination in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century California. It explores the contradiction inherent in geographic imagination, how it was allied to capitalist development but simultaneously held capitalism's outcomes suspect. It focuses on the pressure to turn nature into money and how the capitalist transformation of California was narrated and represented in novels of theperiod. |
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These essays on California's economy, culture, and literature between the 1880s and 1920s show how rural places were made over in the image of capital. The story told here is of the real and imaginary spaces that capital occupied, including its encounters with the realities and representations of race, gender, and class. Beginning with the geography and political economy of agrarian capitalism, Henderson moves on to examine the celebratory, if fretful, ruminations on economy in novels by Frank Norris, Mary Austin, and many other writers drawn to rural California before John Steinbeck redefined the scene in the 1930s. |
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4 halftones, 9 maps |
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US |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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