Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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 compl...

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description 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.
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prosthetics in literature
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Wilkie Collins
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Sweet, Ryan
Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
title Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
title_full Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
title_fullStr Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
title_full_unstemmed Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
title_short Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
title_sort prosthetic body parts in nineteenth century literature and culture
topic nineteenth century literature
disability in literature
prosthetics in literature
Victorian disability
Charles Dickens
Wilkie Collins
Edgar Allen Poe
Open Access
Victorian Literature
Literature, Science and Medicine Studies
Literature and Disability Studies
Novel
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thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
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