Main street and empire the fictional small town in the age of globalization /
Poll, Ryan, 1975-
Main street and empire the fictional small town in the age of globalization / Ryan Poll. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies 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
American literature--History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns--United States.
Literature and globalization.
Electronic Books.
PS169 / .M356 2012
Main street and empire the fictional small town in the age of globalization / Ryan Poll. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies 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
American literature--History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns--United States.
Literature and globalization.
Electronic Books.
PS169 / .M356 2012