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, ©2012. - 1 online resource - - American literatures initiative .
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.
In Main Street and Empire, Ryan Poll argues that the small town, as evoked by the image of "Main Street," is not a relic of the past but rather a metaphorical screen upon which the nation's "everyday" stories and subjects are projected on both a national and global level. It brings together a wide range of literary, cultural, and political texts to examine how the small town is used to imagine and reproduce the nation throughout the twentieth- and into the twenty-first century.
English.
9780813552941 (electronic bk.) 081355294X (electronic bk.) 1283634589 9781283634588
9786613947031 10.36019/9780813552941 doi
394703 MIL 22573/ctt4jx1pn JSTOR
American literature--History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns--United States.
Literature and globalization.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
Villes--États-Unis.
Littérature et mondialisation.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
American literature.
Cities and towns.
Cities and towns in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Literature and globalization.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
PS169.C57 / P65 2012eb
810.9/355
PS169.C57 / P65 2012
Main street and empire : the fictional small town in the age of globalization / Ryan Poll. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2012. - 1 online resource - - American literatures initiative .
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.
In Main Street and Empire, Ryan Poll argues that the small town, as evoked by the image of "Main Street," is not a relic of the past but rather a metaphorical screen upon which the nation's "everyday" stories and subjects are projected on both a national and global level. It brings together a wide range of literary, cultural, and political texts to examine how the small town is used to imagine and reproduce the nation throughout the twentieth- and into the twenty-first century.
English.
9780813552941 (electronic bk.) 081355294X (electronic bk.) 1283634589 9781283634588
9786613947031 10.36019/9780813552941 doi
394703 MIL 22573/ctt4jx1pn JSTOR
American literature--History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns--United States.
Literature and globalization.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
Villes--États-Unis.
Littérature et mondialisation.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
American literature.
Cities and towns.
Cities and towns in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Literature and globalization.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
PS169.C57 / P65 2012eb
810.9/355
PS169.C57 / P65 2012