Prosthesis in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Taylor & Francis

Prosthesis in Medieval and Early Modern CultureAuthor(s): Chloe Porter, Katie L. Walter, Margaret Healy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138095311, 978-1138095311\nSynopsis\nProsthesis 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. \n\nThis 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, Refor.