02996nam 2200637Ia 450 991045149670332120200520144314.01-280-52910-50-19-535521-01-4294-0024-2(CKB)1000000000408959(EBL)271125(OCoLC)466424265(SSID)ssj0000116836(PQKBManifestationID)11898347(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116836(PQKBWorkID)10036082(PQKB)10964903(MiAaPQ)EBC271125(Au-PeEL)EBL271125(CaPaEBR)ebr10142234(CaONFJC)MIL52910(EXLCZ)99100000000040895919971229d1999 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCalifornia & the fictions of capital[electronic resource] /George L. HendersonNew York Oxford University Press19991 online resource (294 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-510890-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-249) and index.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 California6 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;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.American literatureCaliforniaHistory and criticismCapitalism and literatureCaliforniaCapitalCaliforniaHistoryCaliforniaHistorical geographyCaliforniaEconomic conditionsElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Capitalism and literatureCapitalHistory.810.9/32794Henderson George L.1958-911913MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451496703321California & the fictions of capital2042045UNINA