1 option
Main street and empire : the fictional small town in the age of globalization / Ryan Poll.
Van Pelt Library PS169.C57 P65 2012
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poll, Ryan, 1975-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Cities and towns in literature.
- City and town life in literature.
- Cities and towns--United States.
- Cities and towns.
- Literature and globalization.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2012]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813552897
- 0813552893
- 9780813552903
- 0813552907
- 9780813552941
- 081355294X
- OCLC:
- 753912326
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.