Main street and empire
Subtitle: the fictional small town in the age of globalization
By: Ryan Poll
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813552897; 9780813552903; 9780813552941
Subjects: Literature and globalization; Cities and towns; City and town life in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Cities and towns in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the small town as a modern nation form; title: Sacred islands in modernity: the prehistory of the dominant small town; title: An unfinished revolution: "the revolt from the village" reconsidered; title: Mapping the modern small town: a circular imaginary; title: A new machine in the small-town garden: periodizing an automodernity; title: The formation of a U.S. fascist aesthetics; or, welcome to main street; title: Staging and archiving the nation: pedagogical theater, Thornton Wilder's Our town, and U.S. imperialism; title: "One happy world": the postmodern small town and the small-town postmodern; title: Global belonging: the small town as the world's home; title: Afterword: the global village.