Prosthetic body parts in nineteenth-century literature and culture / Ryan Sweet.
Sweet, Ryan, author.
2022
PS217.B63
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Title Prosthetic body parts in nineteenth-century literature and culture / Ryan Sweet.
Author Sweet, Ryan, author.
ISBN 9783030785895 (electronic bk.)
3030785890 (electronic bk.)
9783030785888
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78589-5
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-78589-5 doi
Call Number PS217.B63
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.93561
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Open access.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
Available in Other Form Prosthetic body parts in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
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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.

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