Universes without Us : Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature /

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"During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wide variety of American writers proposed the existence of energies connecting human beings to cosmic processes. From varying points of view--scientific, philosophical, religious, and literary--they suggested that such energies would event...

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Main Author: Taylor, Matthew A., 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Chesnutt, Charles W. > (Charles Waddell), > 1858-1932
Adams, Henry, > 1838-1918
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.
Self in literature.
Order (Philosophy) in literature.
Humanity in literature.
Human beings in literature.
Cosmology in literature.
American literature.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Ordre (Philosophie) dans la litterature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Homme dans la litterature.
Humanite (Morale) dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Cosmologie dans la litterature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Immortal postmortems
  • Edgar Allan Poe's meta/physics
  • Henry Adams's half-life: The science of autobiography
  • "By an act of self-creation": on becoming human in America
  • Hoodoo you think you are?: self-conjuration in Chesnutt's The conjure woman
  • "It might be the death of you": Hurston's Voodoo ethnography.

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