Format:
Book
Title:
Ramona memories : tourism and the shaping of Southern California / Dydia DeLyser.
Author:
DeLyser, Dydia.
Call Number:
813 DeLyser
Web Site:
Publisher, Date:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
Description:
xxiii, 256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 -- Homes and haunts -- California, Southern.
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 -- Appreciation -- California, Southern.
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 -- Knowledge -- California, Southern.
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- California, Southern.
Literature and history -- California, Southern.
Historic sites -- California, Southern.
Tourism -- California, Southern.
California, Southern -- Description and travel.
California, Southern -- In literature.
Contents:
A determined author and her novel -- Ramona's pilgrims : tourism and Southern California -- Rancho Camulos : symbolic heart of the Ramona myth -- A close second : Rancho Guajome -- Ramona's marriage place, "which no tourist will fail to visit" -- Ramona's birthplace : elusive remnant of an attraction -- "Real" Ramonas -- The staging of a novel -- From Coney Island to trailer park : Ramona village -- Conclusion : Ramona and social memory in Southern California.
ISBN:
081664571X (hc : alk. paper)
0816645728 (pb : alk. paper)