California and the Fictions of Capital |
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Author:
| Henderson, George L. |
Series title: | Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-510890-3 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1998 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $215.00 |
Book Description:
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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 the period.
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 the period.