The Prosthetic Imagination

The Body and the Early Modern State: From More to Cavendish. Fiction, the Body and the State -- Anatomy, Early Modernity and the Prosthetic Imagination -- Utopian Self-Fashioning from More to Cavendish -- The Prosthetic Imagination in the Early Novel Form -- The Colonial Body: From Behn to Goethe. Economies of Scale From Aphra Behn to Sarah Scott -- Colonialism and the World Picture in the Eighteenth-Century Novel -- Invisible Ink: Self-Fashioning and Self-Erasure in Daniel Defoe -- A Continuation of the Brain: Unregulated Bodies in Swift and Scott -- Organic Aesthetics from Richardson to Goethe -- The Organic and the Mechanic -- The Full and the Empty -- Attachment and Evasion -- The Manufactured Body: From Wollstonecraft to Stoker. The Dead Hand: Realism and Biomaterial -- The Dead Hand: Realism and Biomaterial in the Nineteenth-Century -- Irony and Biocritique from Wollstonecraft to Austen -- The Dyer's Hand: Narrative and Biomaterial in Dickens and Eliot -- An Inside Narrative: Prosthetic life in Melville -- Strange Affinity: Gothic Prosthetics from Shelley to Stoker -- The Modernist Body: From James to Beckett -- A Duplication of Consciousness: Realism -- A Duplication of Consciousness: Realism, Modernism and Prosthetic Self-Fashioning -- Modernism and the Fin de Siècle -- Art and Embodiment in James and Wharton -- All Twined Together: Prosthetic Modernism from Proust to Beckett -- Survival and Annihilation Entwined Within Me: Gathering and Dispersal in the Modernist Novel -- Landscape of Prosthetics and Simulacra -- The Limits of the Word -- Like-lines: Simulacral Prosthetics in Morrison and Pynchon -- Prosthetic Worlds in the Twenty-First-Century Novel. World, Nature, Culture -- Hand, Face, Wall -- Mind, Body, World.