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oapen-20.500.12657-519762021-12-14T02:46:52Z Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Sweet, Ryan 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 bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology 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. 2021-12-13T18:56:11Z 2021-12-13T18:56:11Z 2022 book ONIX_20211213_9783030785895_46 9783030785895 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51976 eng Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-78589-5.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-78589-5 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-78589-5 10.1007/978-3-030-78589-5 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9783030785895 Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 283 Bern [grantnumber unknown] Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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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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