EAN: 9783030785918

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY WRITING ...

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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