Intro
Preface
Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Part I: Introduction
1 Critical Posthumanism: An Overview
Introduction
Critical Posthumanism: An Overview
Conclusion
References
Part II: Posthumanism Across the Ages
2 Posthumanism and Deep Time
Introduction
Anthropocene: Worlds With and Without Us
The Proliferation of Geostories and the Geologization of Posthumanism
Ancestrality and the Humanities
Extinction and Deep Ecology
Cross-References
References
3 Classical Posthumanism
Introduction

Classical Literature and Posthumanism
Becoming-Animal
Becoming-Monster
Becoming-Human
Becoming-Machine and Object
Classical Posthumanism and the Cognitive Prosthetic Turn
Logos, Pharmacological Interventions, and the Technical Construction of Human Fate
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
4 Early Modern Posthumanism
Introduction
Actaeon Ego Sum
Losing Face
Who Left the Dogs Out?
Watery Matters
Conclusion: Places We Havent́ Been
Cross-References
Notes
Works Cited
5 Medieval Posthumanism
Introduction
The Posthuman Beowulf

Monstrous Natures
The Medieval HumAnimal
Monstrosity, Disability, and the Future of Medieval Posthumanism
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
6 Posthumanism and the Enlightenment
Introduction
Humanism
Embodiment
Aesthetic and Environmental Awareness
Beyond the Enlightenment Subject
Enlightenment Materialisms
Outlook
Cross-References
References
7 Romanticism and Critical Posthumanism
Introduction
Toward a Romantic Critical Posthumanism
Romantic Critical Posthumanist Scholarship

How Did We Get Here? Romanticism Then, to Our Posthumanist Now
Two Strains of Critical Posthumanist Romantic Scholarship
Posthumanist Readings: Three Romantic Case Studies
Frankenstein
``Mont Blanc ́́
``To Autumn ́́
From the Nuts and Bolts of the Romantic Cyborg
German Romanticism
American Romanticism
Room for Future Work
Cross-References
References
8 Victorian Posthumanism
Introduction
Critical Posthumanism in the Victorian Era
Posthumanism in Victorian Scholarship
Posthumanist Darwin
Dinosaurs and the Victorian Museum

Human-Machine Assemblages in Factory Fiction
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
9 Modernism and Posthumanism
Introduction
Modernism, Modernity, and the Posthuman
Feminist Aesthetics and Modernist Posthumanism
Conclusion: Thinking with Modernist Posthumanism
Cross-References
References
10 Postmodernism and Posthumanism
Introduction
Cross-References
References
11 Posthumanism and Speculative Fiction
Introduction
Early SF Into Transhumanism
Posthumanist Theory Through SF
Sf as Posthuman Theory
Cross-References
References