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|a Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture.
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|a Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Professional and Personal -- Reuse of Copyrighted Material -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Structure -- Scope -- Critical Contexts -- Language -- References -- Chapter 2: Constructing and Complicating Physical Wholeness -- Cultivating Completeness -- Theories of Body and Mind -- Legal and Social Factors -- Literatures of Loss -- Persuasive Prosthetists -- References -- Chapter 3: "The Infurnal Thing": Autonomy and Ability in Narratives of Disabling, Self-acting, and Weaponized Prostheses -- Human-Machine Minds and Bodies -- Productive Prostheses -- Disabling Devices -- Prostheses as Weapons -- Self-acting Prostheses -- References -- Chapter 4: Mobilities: Physical and Social -- Mendicity Versus Mendacity -- The Peg Versus the Artificial Leg -- Prosthesis Users in Dickens's Journals -- Our Mutual Friend -- Wegg's Legacy -- References -- Chapter 5: "Losing a Leg to Gain a Wife": Marriage, Gender, and the Prosthetic Body Part -- Gendered Difference -- Prostheses in the Marriage Plot -- "False" Females -- Marriageable Men? -- "Love Which Conquers All Reversals and Disabilities" -- Enticing Devices -- Prosthetic Matches -- Countering Concealment -- References -- Chapter 6: Signs of Decline? Prostheses and the Ageing Subject -- Attitudes to Ageing -- Vanity and Calamity -- False Part, Flawed Whole -- Losing One's Wig -- Dazzling Devices and Unlikely Heroes -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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