Imagined frontiers : contemporary America and beyond /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abbott, Carl, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma, [2015]
Subjects:
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.