Main Street and Empire
Title | Main Street and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Ryan Poll |
Publisher | American Literatures Initiativ |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813552897 |
"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. In Main 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's Our Town, Grace Metalious's Peyton Place, and Peter Weir's The Truman Show to the speeches of William McKinley, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, and Barack Obama--Poll examines how the small town is used to imagine and reproduce the nation throughout the twentieth- and into the twenty-first century. He contends that the dominant small town, despite its innocent, nostalgic appearance, is central to the development of the U.S. empire and global capitalism." --Publisher description.
Main Street
Title | Main Street PDF eBook |
Author | Sinclair Lewis |
Publisher | First Avenue Editions TM |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2022-08-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1728468884 |
Carol Milford dreams of living in a small, rural town. But Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, isn't the paradise she'd imagined. First published in 1920, this unabridged edition of the Sinclair Lewis novel is an American classic, considered by many to be his most noteworthy and lasting work. As a work of social satire, this complex and compelling look at small-town America in the early 20th century has earned its place among the classics.
Alphabetic List of Lenders
Title | Alphabetic List of Lenders PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 606 |
Release | |
Genre | Student aid |
ISBN |
Annual Report
Title | Annual Report PDF eBook |
Author | Ohio. Chattel Loan Bureau |
Publisher | |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Chattel mortgages |
ISBN |
Legislative Document
Title | Legislative Document PDF eBook |
Author | New York (State). Legislature |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1568 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | New York (State) |
ISBN |
Programs and Schools
Title | Programs and Schools PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Empire's End
Title | Empire's End PDF eBook |
Author | David Dunwoody |
Publisher | Permuted Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2011-04-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 193486174X |
The dead refuse to stay dead. The Reaper is here to put them down. As winter sets in and America’s survivors struggle to rebuild a semblance of civilization, terrifying new enemies are gathering—both in the lawless badlands and within the walls of the safe zone. Most fearsome of all is the “King of the Dead.” His zombified troupe of sideshow curiosities is but a fraction of his growing pack. The Reaper’s quest to safeguard the humans he has befriended places him on the trail of these feral undead. But he is sorely unprepared for the return of the zombie transformed by his own flesh, the Omega—a fiend driven by something more sinister than any virus. Meanwhile, Death’s questions about his origin haunt him, and he is close to the answers... but the worst of both the living and the dead are rising in his path, and he’ll have to cut them all down to reach the cosmic endgame.