This volume addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War.
This volume addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War.
Aaron Shaheen is the George C. Connor Professor of American Literature at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he teaches courses in American modernism. His previous book, Androgynous Democracy: Modern American Literature and the Dual-Sexed Body Politic, was published in 2010. He has published articles in PLMA, Modernism/modernity, Modern Fictions Studies, and a number of other journals.
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface: APropos of Vienna, 2011 * Introduction: 'This Is the Spirit' * 1: From the Civil War to the Great War: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of a Spiritual Paradigm * 2: Redeeming Reconstruction: White Evolutionary Ascension and the Acquisition of Spirit in Carry On * 3: Plumes Agonistes: Laurence Stallings's Ambivalent Relationship with the Great War Rehabilitative Program * 4: Medieval Departures: Facial Prostheses in John Dos Passos's One Man's Initiation: 1917 * 5: A Return to the Face: Anna Coleman Ladd's Portrait Masks for Mutilated Soldiers * 6: The Prosthetic Fantasies and Fallacies of Claude Wheeler: Outdoor Rehabilitation and the Limits of Self-Mechanization in One of Ours * Epilogue: Johnny Got His Gun at the Twilight of the Great War Prosthetic Program
* Preface: APropos of Vienna, 2011 * Introduction: 'This Is the Spirit' * 1: From the Civil War to the Great War: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of a Spiritual Paradigm * 2: Redeeming Reconstruction: White Evolutionary Ascension and the Acquisition of Spirit in Carry On * 3: Plumes Agonistes: Laurence Stallings's Ambivalent Relationship with the Great War Rehabilitative Program * 4: Medieval Departures: Facial Prostheses in John Dos Passos's One Man's Initiation: 1917 * 5: A Return to the Face: Anna Coleman Ladd's Portrait Masks for Mutilated Soldiers * 6: The Prosthetic Fantasies and Fallacies of Claude Wheeler: Outdoor Rehabilitation and the Limits of Self-Mechanization in One of Ours * Epilogue: Johnny Got His Gun at the Twilight of the Great War Prosthetic Program
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