March 2014 Academic & Specialist University of Minnesota Press

Universes without Us: Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature Matthew A. Taylor


Paperback (Trade paperback US) | Mar 2014 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816680610 | 264pp | 215x139mm | RFB | AUD$30.00, NZD$34.99
Hardback | Dec 2013 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816680603 | 264pp | 216x140mm | RFB | AUD$90.00, NZD$110.99

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.