03199nam 22006253 450 991051216090332120231110221409.03-030-78589-0(CKB)5100000000152645(MiAaPQ)EBC6827683(Au-PeEL)EBL6827683(OCoLC)1291316981(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74898(EXLCZ)99510000000015264520220207d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierProsthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and CultureBernSpringer Nature2022Cham :Springer International Publishing AG,2021.©2022.1 online resource (292 pages)Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture 3-030-78588-2 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.Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900bicsscSociologybicsscnineteenth century literaturedisability in literatureprosthetics in literatureVictorian disabilityCharles DickensWilkie CollinsEdgar Allen PoeOpen AccessVictorian LiteratureLiterature, Science and Medicine StudiesLiterature and Disability StudiesNovelLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900Sociology810.93561810.93561Sweet Ryan1076010MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910512160903321Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture2586037UNINA