The New Human in Literature: Posthuman Visions of Changes in Body, Mind and Society After 1900

by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

Book Overview

Twentieth-century literature changed understandings of what it meant to be human. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, in this historical overview, presents a record of literature's changing ideas of mankind, questioning the degree to which literature records and creates visions of the new human.

Grounded in the theory of Niklas Luhmann and drawing on canonical works, Thomsen uses literary changes in the mind, body and society to define the new human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474228194
• ISBN13: 9781474228190
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"