Imagining Los Angeles
Subtitle: a city in fiction
By: David Fine.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: American fiction -- California -- Los Angeles -- History and criticism; Novelists, American -- Homes and haunts -- California -- Los Angeles; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; City and town life in literature; Cities and towns in literature; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Intellectual life; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- In literature
Description: "The promotional literature that lured sun-starved Midwesterners to Southern California in the 1880s hyped the region as the New Eden. But the novelists who created our vision of Los Angeles soon began to see it as Dystopia rather than Utopia, a corrupt, unreal city foreshadowing and reflecting all that is wrong with America. David Fine traces the history of the place through the work of the authors who have defined it in our imaginations."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-[272]) and index.