Universes Without Us: Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature

by Matthew A. Taylor

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 eventually result in the perfection of individual and collective bodies, assuming that assimilation into larger networks of being meant the expansion of humanity's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816680612
• ISBN13: 9780816680610
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"