Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing AG,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Series
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Table of Contents:
- 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.