Book contents
- The Prosthetic Imagination
- The Prosthetic Imagination
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Body and the Early Modern State: From More to Cavendish
- Part II The Colonial Body: From Behn to Goethe
- Part III The Manufactured Body: From Wollstonecraft to Stoker
- Part IV The Modernist Body: From James to Beckett
- Part V The Posthuman Body: From Orwell to Atwood
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Mimesis and Prosthesis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
Book contents
- The Prosthetic Imagination
- The Prosthetic Imagination
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Body and the Early Modern State: From More to Cavendish
- Part II The Colonial Body: From Behn to Goethe
- Part III The Manufactured Body: From Wollstonecraft to Stoker
- Part IV The Modernist Body: From James to Beckett
- Part V The Posthuman Body: From Orwell to Atwood
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This Introduction outlines the theoretical, historical and technological contexts against which the exploration of the prosthetic imagination will unfold, in the chapters that follow. It develops an account of the relationship between mimesis and prosthesis, by teasing out a theoretical relationship with Auerbach’s Mimesis. It then demonstrates the ways in which the emerging prosthetic condition requires us to rethink the legacies of twentieth-century thought, and our conception of the historical function of the novel in imagining our lifeworlds.
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- The Prosthetic ImaginationA History of the Novel as Artificial Life, pp. 1 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020