Title: Desire Called America
Description: 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.
Subjects: Utopias in literature, Politics in literature, American literature, History and criticism, Utopias, Exceptionalism