Prosthesis in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Chloe Porter (University of Sussex, UK), Katie L. Walter (Sussex University, UK), Margaret Healy (Sussex University, UK)

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English

Routledge
12 December 2017

Social & cultural history; Disability: social aspects; History of medicine

‘Prosthesis’ denotes a rhetorical ‘addition’ to a pre-existing ‘beginning’, a ‘replacement’ for that which is ‘defective or absent’, a technological mode of ‘correction’ that reveals a history of corporeal and psychic discontent. Recent scholarship has given weight to these multiple meanings of ‘prosthesis’ as tools of analysis for literary and cultural criticism. The study of pre-modern prosthesis, however, often registers as an absence in contemporary critical discourse.

This collection seeks to redress this omission, reconsidering the history of prosthesis and its implications for contemporary critical responses to, and uses of, it. The book demonstrates the significance of notions of prosthesis in medieval and early modern theological debate, Reformation controversy, and medical discourse and practice. It also tracks its importance for imaginings of community and of the relationship of self and other, as performed on the stage, expressed in poetry, charms, exemplary and devotional literature, and as fought over in the documents of religious and cultural change. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book engages with contemporary critical and cultural theory and philosophy, genre theory, literary history, disability studies, and medical humanities, establishing prosthesis as a richly productive analytical tool in the pre-modern, as well as the modern, context. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Textual Practice journal.

Edited by: Chloe Porter (University of Sussex UK), Katie L. Walter (Sussex University, UK), Margaret Healy (Sussex University, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138095311
ISBN 10: 1138095311
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 12 December 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chloe Porter is Lecturer in English Literature in the School of English, and a member of the Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Katie L. Walter is Lecturer in Medieval English Literature in the School of English, and a member of the Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Margaret Healy is Professor of Literature and Culture in the School of English, and a member of the Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies, at the University of Sussex, UK.