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dc.contributor.authorSweet, Ryan
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-13T18:56:11Z
dc.date.available2021-12-13T18:56:11Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20211213_9783030785895_46
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51976
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociologyen_US
dc.subject.othernineteenth century literature
dc.subject.otherdisability in literature
dc.subject.otherprosthetics in literature
dc.subject.otherVictorian disability
dc.subject.otherCharles Dickens
dc.subject.otherWilkie Collins
dc.subject.otherEdgar Allen Poe
dc.subject.otherOpen Access
dc.subject.otherVictorian Literature
dc.subject.otherLiterature, Science and Medicine Studies
dc.subject.otherLiterature and Disability Studies
dc.subject.otherNovel
dc.titleProsthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-030-78589-5
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.relation.isFundedByd859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd
oapen.relation.isbn9783030785895
oapen.collectionWellcome
oapen.imprintPalgrave Macmillan
oapen.pages283
oapen.place.publicationBern
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