The Recursive Frontier James Loft

The Recursive Frontier James LoftShows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid twentieth century literature of Los Angeles. The Recursive Frontier is an innovative spatial history of both the literature of Los Angeles and the city itself in the mid twentieth century. Setting canonical texts alongside underexamined works and sources such as census bulletins and regional planning documents,

the neighborhood

The Victorian aquarium investigates the nineteenth-century vogue for home tanks

the socioeconomic status of the citizenry

Ruth Edwards escaped to England during World War II

Varney the Vampire is a story of tragedy

which is followed by a breakdown of bioreactor operation modes: batch cultivation

and contemporary implications of these chapters are then meditated upon

in reframing the family

The son of a middle-class father and aristocratic mother

as well as on language dynamics and change

Cassava diseases are major production constraints wherever the crop is grown

the book derives an African democracy model