Universes without us [electronic resource] : posthuman cosmologies in American literature / Matthew A. Taylor.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9781452940519
- 1452940517
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
- PHILOSOPHY / General
- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
- Order (Philosophy) in literature
- Self in literature
- Human beings in literature
- Humanity in literature
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Cosmology in literature
- Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation
- Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932. -- Criticism and interpretation
- Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation
- 810.9/384 23
- PS217.P45 T39 2013
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.) -- The Johns Hopkins University, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Immortal Post-Mortems -- 1. Edgar Allan Poe's Meta/Physics -- 2. Henry Adams's Half-Life: The Science of Autobiography -- 3. "By an Act of Self-Creation": On Becoming Human in America -- 4. Hoodoo You Think You Are?: Self-Conjuration in Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman -- 5. "It Might Be the Death of You": Hurston's Voodoo Ethnography -- Coda: "The Cosmo-Political Party" -- Notes -- Index.
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