The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life

by Peter Boxall

In The Prosthetic Imagination, leading critic Peter Boxall argues that we are now entering an artificial age, in which our given bodies enter into new conjunctions with our prosthetic extensions. This new age requires us to reimagine our relation to our bodies, and to our environments, and Boxall suggests that the novel as a form can guide us in this imaginative task. Across a dazzling range of prose fictions, from Thomas More's Utopia to Margaret...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108836488
• ISBN13: 9781108836487
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.7" x 9.2"