| Description |
1 online resource (246 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 32-240) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 03, 2019) |
| Subject |
Utopias -- United States
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Exceptionalism -- United States
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Utopias in literature.
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utopian literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Exceptionalism
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Utopias
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Utopias in literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823286973 |
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0823286975 |
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9780823286966 |
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0823286967 |
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