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Prosthetic body parts in nineteenth-century literature and culture

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Prosthetic body parts in nineteenth-century literature and cultureby Ryan Sweet.
Author:	Sweet, Ryan.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022.
Description:	xv, 283 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	American literatureHistory and criticism.19th century
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78589-5
ISBN:	9783030785895$q(electronic bk.)

Prosthetic body parts in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Sweet, Ryan.

Prosthetic body parts in nineteenth-century literature and culture[electronic resource] /by Ryan Sweet. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - xv, 283 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture,2634-6508. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture..

1. Introduction -- 2. Constructing and Complicating Physical Wholeness -- 3."The infurnal thing": Autonomy and Ability in Narratives of Disabling, Self-Acting, and Weaponised Prostheses -- 4. Mobilities: Physical and Social -- 5. "Losing a Leg to Gain a Wife": Marriage, Gender, and the Prosthetic Body Part -- 6. Signs of Decline? Prostheses and the Ageing Subject -- 7. Conclusion.

Open access.

This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical wholeness. Revealing how representations of the prostheticized body were inflected significantly by factors such as social class, gender, and age, Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture argues that nineteenth-century prosthesis narratives, though presented in a predominantly ableist and sometimes disablist manner, challenged the dominance of physical completeness as they questioned the logic of prostheticization or presented non-normative subjects in threateningly powerful ways. Considering texts by authors including Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Conan Doyle alongside various cultural, medical, and commercial materials, this book provides an important reappraisal of historical attitudes to not only prostheses but also concepts of physical normalcy and difference.

ISBN: 9783030785895$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-78589-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

176106
American literature
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PS217.B63

Dewey Class. No.: 810.93561

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