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Universes without Us : Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature /

"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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Auteur principal: Taylor, Matthew A., 1978-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.