Main street and empire
Poll, Ryan, 1975-
Main street and empire the fictional small town in the age of globalization / [electronic resource] : Ryan Poll. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the small town as a modern nation form -- Sacred islands in modernity: the prehistory of the dominant small town -- An unfinished revolution: "the revolt from the village" reconsidered -- Mapping the modern small town: a circular imaginary -- A new machine in the small-town garden: periodizing an automodernity -- The formation of a U.S. fascist aesthetics; or, welcome to main street -- Staging and archiving the nation: pedagogical theater, Thornton Wilder's Our town, and U.S. imperialism -- "One happy world": the postmodern small town and the small-town postmodern -- Global belonging: the small town as the world's home -- Afterword: the global village.
9780813552941 081355294X
Literature and globalization.
Cities and towns--United States.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS169.C57 / P65 2012
810.9/355
Main street and empire the fictional small town in the age of globalization / [electronic resource] : Ryan Poll. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the small town as a modern nation form -- Sacred islands in modernity: the prehistory of the dominant small town -- An unfinished revolution: "the revolt from the village" reconsidered -- Mapping the modern small town: a circular imaginary -- A new machine in the small-town garden: periodizing an automodernity -- The formation of a U.S. fascist aesthetics; or, welcome to main street -- Staging and archiving the nation: pedagogical theater, Thornton Wilder's Our town, and U.S. imperialism -- "One happy world": the postmodern small town and the small-town postmodern -- Global belonging: the small town as the world's home -- Afterword: the global village.
9780813552941 081355294X
Literature and globalization.
Cities and towns--United States.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS169.C57 / P65 2012
810.9/355