Universes without Us : Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature.
Title:
Universes without Us : Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature.
Author:
Taylor, Matthew A.
ISBN:
9781452940519
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (280 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Edgar Allan Poe's Meta/Physics -- 2. Henry Adams's Half-Life -- 3. "By An Act of Self-Creation" -- 4. Hoodoo You Think You Are? -- 5. "It Might Be the Death of You" -- Coda -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
As Matthew A. Taylor's incisive readings reveal, the heterodox cosmologies of Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Adams, Charles Chesnutt, and Zora Neale Hurston reject the anthropocentric fantasy that sees the universe as a kind of reservoir of self-realization. Taylor shows how posthumanist theory can illuminate American literary texts and how those texts might, in turn, prompt a reassessment of posthumanist theory.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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