Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cu... - 9783030785918

Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and CultureAuthor(s): Ryan Sweet\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG\nISBN-13: 9783030785918, 978-3030785918\nSynopsis\nThis 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 Partsin Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultureargues that nineteenth-century prosthesis narratives, though presented in a predominantly ableist and sometimes disablist manner, chall.