Imagined frontiers : contemporary America and beyond /
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Places on the edge
- Part 1. Jack London imagines the suburban frontier
- Real estate and race: imagining the second circuit of capital in sunbelt cities
- Imagining Portland's urban growth boundary: planning regulation as cultural icon, with Joy Margheim
- Jim Rockford or Tony Soprano: coastal contrasts in American suburbia
- On the sidewalks of Los Angeles
- Part 2. Continental refuge
- West by southeast: Pater Matthiessen's Florida trilogy as western fiction
- Cascadian dreams: imagining a region over four decades
- Rocky Mountain refuge: constructing "Colorado" in science fiction
- The light on the horizon: imagining the death of American cities
- Part 3. Planetary pioneering
- Firefly, westerns, and western history
- Homesteading on the extraterrestrial frontier
- Falling into history: the imagined wests of Kim Stanley Robinson.