Main street and empire : the fictional small town in the age of globalization / Ryan Poll.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poll, Ryan, 1975-
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns > United States.
Literature and globalization.
Physical Description:xii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.