02316    a2200337   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001500136072001600151072001500167072001500182072001400197072001400211072001300225072001300238072002100251072002500272100001700297245005200314250000600366260003200372300001000404520150000414700002501914700002401939999001501963135160204720250317111629.0250312042018GB                   eng    a9781351602044  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 41.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aDSB2thema7 aJBFM2thema7 aDSA2thema7 aJHB2thema7 aDSBD2bic7 aJFFG2bic7 aDSA2bic7 aJHB2bic7 aLIT0000002bisac7 a820.9356109022bisac1 aChloe Porter10aProsthesis in Medieval and Early Modern Culture  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20181207  a184 p  b‘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.1 aKatie L. Walter4B011 aMargaret Healy4B01  c6558d6558