{"product_id":"main-street-and-empire-the-fictional-small-town-in-the-age-of-globalization-american-literatures-initiative-the-american-literatures-initiative-9780813552903","title":"Main Street and Empire The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization American Literatures Initiative The American Literatures Initiative","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Elegantly written, \u003ci\u003eMain Street and Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is of the utmost importance to the reconceptualization of American exceptionalism within a transnational geography. This book is certain to exert a major influence on accounts of global American modernity for many years to come.” -- Donald E. Pease * founding director of the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The most incisive analysis available about representational discourses of small towns U.S.A. From classic texts to corporate advertising, Poll reveals a small town imaginary shaping an age of globalization.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Evan Watkins * author of Class Degrees *\u003cbr\u003e\"Using broad cultural analysis, Poll investigates the centrality of the small town, as represented in literature, to the cultural imagination of the US. An impressive, multifaceted exploration of the small town as a symbol. Readers with some background in literary theory will find this book most compelling. Recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Small Town as Modern Nation Form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Sacred Islands in Modernity: The Prehistory of the Dominant Small Town\u003cbr\u003e2. An Unfinished Revolution: \"The Revolt from the Village\" Reconsidered\u003cbr\u003e3. Mapping the Modern Small Town: A Circular Imaginary\u003cbr\u003e4. A New Machine in the Small-Town Garden: Periodizing an Automodernity\u003cbr\u003e5. The Formation of a U.S. Fascist Aesthetics; or, Welcome to Main Street\u003cbr\u003e6. Staging and Archiving the Nation: Pedagogical Theater, Thornton Wilder's \u003ci\u003eOur Town\u003c\/i\u003e, and U.S. Imperialism\u003cbr\u003e7. \"One Happy World\": The Postmodern Small Town and the Small-Town Postmodern\u003cbr\u003e8. Global Belonging: The Small Town as the World's Home\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: The Global Village\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MW - Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768154325335,"sku":"9780813552903","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/main-street-and-empire-the-fictional-small-town-in-the-age-of-globalization-american-literatures-initiative-the-american-literatures-initiative-9780813552903","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}