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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784966703321

Autore

Henderson George L. <1958->

Titolo

California & the fictions of capital [[electronic resource] /] / George L. Henderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-19-771196-0

1-280-52910-5

0-19-535521-0

1-4294-0024-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/32794

Soggetti

American literature - California - History and criticism

Capitalism and literature - California

Capital - California - History

California Historical geography

California Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: The Alchemy of Capital and Nature; Why the Late Nineteenth-Century Countryside?; The Discourse of Rural Realism; Why Rural Realism, Why the Novel?; Stalking the Interdisciplinary Wilds; Reference Maps; 1 Rural Commodity Regimes: A Primer; 2 Nature and Fictitious Capital: The Circulation of Money Capital; 3 Toward Rural Realism: Variable Capital, Variable Capitalists, and the Fictions of Capital; Introduction; 4 Mussel Slough and the Contradictions of Squatter Capitalism; 5 Realty Redux: Landscapes of Boom and Bust in Southern California

6 Romancing the Sand: Earth-Capital and Desire in the Imperial Valley  7 Take Me to the River: Water, Metropolitan Growth, and the Countryside; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Essays on California's economy, culture, and literature from the 1880's to the 1920's, showing how rural places were made over in the image of capital. They examine the geography and political economy of agrarian capitalism and literature before John Steinbeck redefined the



scene in the 1930's.