1st Edition
Prosthesis in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Foreword 1. Fragments for a medieval theory of prosthesis 2. Prosthetic ecologies: vulnerable bodies and the dismodern subject in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 3. Literary genre, medieval studies, and the prosthesis of disability 4. Prosthesis and reformation: the Black Rubric and the reinvention of kneeling 5. Wearing powerful words and objects: healing prosthetics 6. Prosthesis and the performance of beginnings in The Woman in the Moon 7. ‘Happy, and without a name’: prosthetic identities on the early modern stage 8. Prosthetic encounter and queer intersubjectivity in The Merchant of Venice Afterword Afterword
Biography
Chloe Porter is Lecturer in English Literature in the School of English, and a member of the Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.
Katie L. Walter is Lecturer in Medieval English Literature in the School of English, and a member of the Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.
Margaret Healy is Professor of Literature and Culture in the School of English, and a member of the Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies, at the University of Sussex, UK.
