{"product_id":"a-desire-called-america-9780823286959","title":"A Desire Called America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Impossibly American | 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eA Revolutionary Haunt: Utopian Frontiers\u003cbr\u003e in William S. Burroughs’s Late Trilogy | 33\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e The People and the People: Democracy and Vitalism\u003cbr\u003e in Walt Whitman’s 1855\u003ci\u003e Leaves of Grass | \u003c\/i\u003e74\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Nobody’s Wife: Affective Economies of Marriage\u003cbr\u003e in Emily Dickinson | 114\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e Idle Power: The Riot, the Commune, and Capitalist Time\u003cbr\u003e in Thomas Pynchon’s\u003ci\u003e Against the Day\u003c\/i\u003e | 157\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCoda\u003c\/b\u003e: Assembling the Future | 205\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e | 209\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e | 213\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e | 241\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406158405975,"sku":"9780823286959","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823286959.jpg?v=1730494732","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-desire-called-america-9780823286959","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}