LEADER 02996nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910451496703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-52910-5 010 $a0-19-535521-0 010 $a1-4294-0024-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000408959 035 $a(EBL)271125 035 $a(OCoLC)466424265 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000116836 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11898347 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116836 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10036082 035 $a(PQKB)10964903 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC271125 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL271125 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10142234 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL52910 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000408959 100 $a19971229d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCalifornia & the fictions of capital$b[electronic resource] /$fGeorge L. Henderson 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (294 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-510890-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-249) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a6 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; 330 $aEssays 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$zCalifornia$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCapitalism and literature$zCalifornia 606 $aCapital$zCalifornia$xHistory 607 $aCalifornia$xHistorical geography 607 $aCalifornia$xEconomic conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCapitalism and literature 615 0$aCapital$xHistory. 676 $a810.9/32794 700 $aHenderson$b George L.$f1958-$0911913 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451496703321 996 $aCalifornia & the fictions of capital$92042045 997 $aUNINA