书目名称 | Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture | 编辑 | Ryan Sweet | 视频video | | 概述 | This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.Provides a reappraisal of historical attitudes to prostheses and concepts of physical ‘normality‘ and ‘difference‘.Conside | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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 no | 出版日期 | Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2022 | 关键词 | nineteenth century literature; disability in literature; prosthetics in literature; Victorian disabilit | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78589-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-78591-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-78589-5Series ISSN 2634-6494 Series E-ISSN 2634-6508 | issn_series | 2634-6494 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022 |
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