Download or read book Universes Without Us written by Matthew A. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.