{"product_id":"universes-without-us-9780816680610","title":"Universes without Us","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUniverses without Us \u003c\/i\u003eprovides incisive and illuminating readings of a wide range of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American literature. This book helps us to reconceive American literature through its compelling connections and intersections and to rethink the place of the human in American literature through its reconstruction of both pessimistic visions of a universe without us in Poe and Adams and potentially more livable posthuman existences through African-American literature.\" —Paul Gilmore, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Genuine Article: Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Immortal Post-Mortems\u003cb\u003e1. Edgar Allan Poe’s Meta\/Physics\u003cb\u003e2. Henry Adams’s Half-Life: The Science of Autobiography\u003cb\u003e3. “By an Act of Self-Creation”: On Becoming Human in America\u003cb\u003e4. Hoodoo You Think You Are?: Self-Conjuration in Chesnutt’s \u003cem\u003eThe Conjure Woman\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. “It Might Be the Death of You”: Hurston’s Voodoo Ethnography\u003cb\u003eCoda: “The Cosmo-Political Party”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotes\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405970350423,"sku":"9780816680610","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816680610.jpg?v=1730494090","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/universes-without-us-9780816680610","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}