Universes without us : (Record no. 109725)
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9780816680603 (hardback) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9780816680610 (pb) |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781452940519 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
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| System control number | (MiAaPQ)EBC1643684 |
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| System control number | (Au-PeEL)EBL1643684 |
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| System control number | (CaPaEBR)ebr10843271 |
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| System control number | (CaONFJC)MIL578966 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)871781386 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
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| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE | |
| Geographic area code | n-us--- |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PS217.P45 |
| Item number | T39 2013 |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 810.9/384 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Taylor, Matthew A., |
| -- | 1978- |
| -- | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Universes without us : |
| Remainder of title | posthuman cosmologies in American literature / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Matthew A. Taylor. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | Posthuman cosmologies in American literature |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Minneapolis : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | University of Minnesota Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | [2013] |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2013 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (279 pages) : |
| Other physical details | illustrations |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.) -- The Johns Hopkins University, 2009. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Immortal Post-Mortems -- 1. Edgar Allan Poe's Meta/Physics -- 2. Henry Adams's Half-Life: The Science of Autobiography -- 3. "By an Act of Self-Creation": On Becoming Human in America -- 4. Hoodoo You Think You Are?: Self-Conjuration in Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman -- 5. "It Might Be the Death of You": Hurston's Voodoo Ethnography -- Coda: "The Cosmo-Political Party" -- Notes -- Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | " 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 powers and potentialities--a belief that continues to inform much posthumanist theory today. Universes without Us explores a lesser-known countertradition in American literature. 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. For these authors, the world can be made neither "other" nor "mirror." Instead, humans are enmeshed with "alien" processes that are both constitutive and destructive of "us." By envisioning universes no longer our own, these cosmologies picture a form of interconnectedness that denies any human ability to master it. Universes without Us demonstrates how the questions, possibilities, and dangers raised by the posthuman appeared nearly two centuries ago. Taylor finds in these works an untimely engagement with posthumanism, particularly in their imagining of universes in which humans are only one category of heterogeneous thing in a vast array of species, objects, and forces. He shows how posthumanist theory can illuminate American literary texts and how those texts might, in turn, prompt a reassessment of posthumanist theory. By understanding the posthuman as a materialist cosmology rather than a technological innovation, Taylor extends the range of thinkers who can be included in contemporary conversations about the posthuman. "-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Poe, Edgar Allan, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1809-1849 |
| General subdivision | Criticism and interpretation. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Adams, Henry, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1838-1918 |
| General subdivision | Criticism and interpretation. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Chesnutt, Charles W. |
| Fuller form of name | (Charles Waddell), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1858-1932 |
| General subdivision | Criticism and interpretation. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hurston, Zora Neale |
| General subdivision | Criticism and interpretation. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Cosmology in literature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | American literature |
| Chronological subdivision | 19th century |
| General subdivision | History and criticism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | American literature |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century |
| General subdivision | History and criticism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Humanity in literature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Human beings in literature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Self in literature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Order (Philosophy) in literature. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Taylor, Matthew A. |
| Title | Universes without us : posthuman cosmologies in American literature. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013] |
| Physical description | viii, 269 pages |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780816680610 |
| Record control number | (DLC)10843271 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1643684">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1643684</a> |
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