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

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.

Author: Christian Haines
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 10/01/2019
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780823286959

About the Author
Christian P. Haines is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State University.