Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism

Joseph Tabbi is an American academic and literary theorist who relocated to the University of Bergen in 2019. He has made significant contributions to the field of experimental American fiction in both print and electronic media. He is the author of Cognitive Fictions (2002) and Postmodern Sublime (1995). He was the first scholar granted access to the William Gaddis archives and is the author of Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis (2015).

• List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: not just another period; 1. Beyond the Two Cultures?; 2. Mary Shelley's modern and Shelley Jackson's postmodern Prometheus; 3. Post-periodization; 4. Posthuman sublime; 5. Ah Bartleby, ah humanities! from transcendentalism to posthumanism; 6. The posthuman imagination in contemporary literature; 7. Posthuman epic in the era of AI; 8. Interlude: N. Katherine Hayles and the cognitive turn in literary posthumanism; 9. Digital posthumanism (on the periphery); Epilogue: platform post(?) pandemic; A collaborative glossary of terms (in process); Works cited; Index.