Christian Haines

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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 future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780823286942
• ISBN-10: 0823286940
• Artikelnr.: 55397920

Autorenporträt

Christian P. Haines

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Impossibly American 1 1. A Revolutionary Haunt: Utopian Frontiers in William S. Burroughs
s Late Trilogy 33 2. The People and the People: Democracy and Vitalism in Walt Whitman
s 1855 Leaves of Grass 74 3. Nobody
s Wife: Affective Economies of Marriage in Emily Dickinson 114 4. Idle Power: The Riot, the Commune, and Capitalist Time in Thomas Pynchon
s Against the Day 157 Coda: Assembling the Future 205 Acknowledgments 209 Notes 213 Index 241