TY - BOOK AU - Poll,Ryan TI - Main street and empire: the fictional small town in the age of globalization SN - 9780813552941 AV - PS169 .M356 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Cities and towns in literature KW - City and town life in literature KW - Cities and towns KW - United States KW - Literature and globalization KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=494301&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -