Title: Imagining Los Angeles
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.
Subjects: American Novelists, Novelists, American, Intellectual life, 20th century, History and criticism, Cities and towns in literature, Homes and haunts, California, American fiction, In literature, City and town life in literature, 19th century, American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Los angeles (calif.), history
Places: California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.)
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century