Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Impossibly American -- 1. A Revolutionary Haunt: Utopian Frontiers in William S. Burroughs's Late Trilogy -- 2. The People and the People: Democracy and Vitalism in Walt Whitman's 1855 Leaves of Grass -- 3. Nobody's Wife: Affective Economies of Marriage in Emily Dickinson -- 4. Idle Power: The Riot, the Commune, and Capitalist Time in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day -- Coda: Assembling the Future -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index