A Desire Called America : Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons /

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Presents interpretations of American literature and politics, focusing on the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William S. Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon. Analyzes how literary texts imagine America in utopian terms, contrasting American exceptionalism to non-capitalist visions of the American f...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Haynes, Christian P. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Utopias in literature.
Utopias.
Exceptionalism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
utopian literature.
Utopies dans la litterature.
Exceptionnalisme > États-Unis.
Utopies > États-Unis.
Exceptionalism > United States.
Utopias > United States.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Impossibly American
  • A Revolutionary Haunt: Utopian Frontiers in William S. Burroughs's Late Trilogy
  • The People and the People: Democracy and Vitalism in Walt Whitman's 1855 Leaves of Grass
  • Nobody's Wife: Affective Economies of Marriage in Emily Dickinson
  • The Riot, the Commune, and Capitalist Time in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day
  • Assembling the Future.

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