Haines A Desire Called America

Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8697-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haines, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Haines Christian:
Christian P. Haines is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State University.Christian P. Haines is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State University.