Main Street And Empire eBook

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 US'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 US throughout the twentieth- and into the twenty-first century.