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Los Angeles : a literary history / edited by Michael Docherty, Ignacio López-Calvo.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--California--Los Angeles--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--In literature.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 421 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- No city occupies as many paradoxical positions in the popular imagination as Los Angeles. It is the new frontier and the end of the trail; it is American Eden and Babylon by the Pacific; it is by turns celebrated and condemned for its diversity; it is the city of perpetual renewal and the city of imminent apocalypse. This collection reveals LA in all its contradictions by documenting a literary tradition as kaleidoscopic and cacophonous as the city itself. The writings explored by Los Angeles: A Literary History record how a dusty cow town morphed into a global metropolis within a matter of decades, and how this unprecedented transformation came to define the experience of modernity. Los Angeles's literature has long gone underappreciated, the city's culture dismissed as flat and frivolous: this volume upturns that narrative, reshaping American literary history by resituating LA as its beating heart.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jun 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781009745673
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