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California automobile tourism and consumer culture in American literature, 1916 to 1939

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  • "This paper studies one of the earliest forms of modern consumer culture - the road book - in relation to one of the early utopias of modern consumption - California. Criticism has traditionally treated the road book as an extension of a loosely defined transcendentalist project, where drivers take to the open road to "discover" themselves in nature. The determinate context, however, is corporate rather than literary-historical. The earliest road books were advertisements. Their itineraries linked up with other spatial technologies (e.g. the conveyor belts in automobile plants and modern highways), transforming space into a vast production and distribution network. Production and distribution intersected in California, the state with the most automobiles per capita and the destination of most early road trips."

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  • "California automobile tourism and consumer culture in American literature, 1916 to 1939"
  • "California Automobile Tourism and Consumer Culture in American Literature 1916 to 1939 [[Elektronische Ressource]]"
  • "California automobile tourism and consumer culture in American literature : 1916 to 1939"
  • "California automobile tourism and consumer culture in American literature 1916 to 1939"

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