'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.
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