Peter Boxall

The Prosthetic Imagination

A History of the Novel as Artificial Life

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an account of the historical development of the novel as a means of imagining and fashioning our bodies and our environments, in order to suggest that prose fiction can help us to understand new forms of artificial life as they are emerging in the twenty-first century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 423
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108819121
• ISBN-10: 1108819125
• Artikelnr.: 73390788

Autorenporträt

Peter Boxall is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His books include Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (2006), Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (2009), Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction (2013), and The Value of the Novel (2015). He has edited a number of collections, including Thinking Poetry (edited with Peter Nicholls, 2013) and Beckett/Aesthetics/Politics, and an edition of Beckett's novel Malone Dies. He is co-editor, with Bryan Cheyette, of volume 7 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English (2016), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction, 1980-2018 (2019), and of the bestselling 1001 Books You Must Read before You Die (2012). He is also the editor of Textual Practice, and the series editor of Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Mimesis and prosthesis; Part I. The Body and the Early Modern
State: From More to Cavendish: 1. Fiction, the body and the state; Part II.
The Colonial Body: From Behn to Goethe: 2. Economies of scale from Aphra
Behn to Sarah Scott; 3. Organic aesthetics from Richardson to Goethe; Part
III. The Manufactured Body: From Wollstonecraft to Stoker: 4. The dead
hand: realism and biomaterial in the nineteenth-century novel; 5. Strange
affinity: Gothic prosthetics from Shelley to Stoker; Part IV. The Modernist
Body: From James to Beckett: 6. A duplication of consciousness: realism,
modernism and prosthetic self-fashioning; 7. All twined together:
prosthetic modernism from Proust to Beckett; Part V. The Posthuman
Body: From Orwell to Atwood: 8. Prosthetics and simulacra: the postmodern
novel; 9. Prosthetic worlds in the twenty-first-century novel.