TY  - BOOK
AU  - Poll,Ryan
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Main street and empire: the fictional small town in the age of globalization 
SN  - 9780813552941
AV  - PS169.C57 P65 2012
U1  - 810.9/355 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Literature and globalization
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - United States
KW  - City and town life in literature
KW  - Cities and towns in literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813552941/
ER  -