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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sweet, Ryan (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture,
Subjects:	Literature, Modern-19th century. People with disabilities. Nineteenth-Century Literature. Disability Studies. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.