Main Street and Empire The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization

Name: Main Street and Empire The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization
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ISBN: 9780813552903

ISBN-10: 0813552907

ISBN-13: 9780813552903

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ryan Poll

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The small town has become a national icon that circulates widely in literature, culture, and politics as an authentic American space and community. Yet there are surprisingly few critical studies that analyze the small town’s centrality to the United States’ identity and imagination.InMain Street and Empire, Ryan Poll addresses this need, arguing 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 America’s “everyday” stories and subjects are projected on both a national and global scale.Bringing together a broad selection of texts—from Thornton Wilder’sOur Town, Grace Metalious’sPeyton Place, and Peter…

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List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 4/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Small Town as 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


Notes


Bibliography


Index