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Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses compl...

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Published in: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
ISBN: 9783030785888 9783030785895
ISSN: 2634-6494 2634-6508
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022
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