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Steaming into a Victorian Future
A Steampunk Anthology
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2012
Summary
A popular sub-genre of fantasy and science fiction, steampunk re-imagines the Victorian age in the future, and re-works its technology, fashion, and values with a dose of anti-modernism. While often considered solely through the lens of literature, steampunk is, in fact, a complex phenomenon that also affects, transforms, and unites a wide range of disciplines, such as art, music, film, television, fashion, new media, and material culture.
In Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology, Julie Anne Taddeo and Cynthia J. Miller have assembled a collection of essays that consider the social and cultural aspects of this multi-faceted genre. The essays included in this volume examine various manifestations of steampunk—both separately and in relation to each other—in order to better understand the steampunk sub-culture and its effect on—and interrelationship with—popular culture and the wider society. This volume expands and extends existing scholarship on steampunk in order to explore many previously unconsidered questions about cultural creativity, social networking, fandom, appropriation, and the creation of meaning.
With a foreword by popular culture scholar Ken Dvorak, and an afterword by steampunk expert Jeff VanderMeer, Steaming into a Victorian Future offers a wide ranging look at the impact of steampunk, as well as the individuals who create, interpret, and consume it.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8586-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8587-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
334
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1. Some Notes on the Steampunk Social Problem Novel No access
Chapter 2. Useful Troublemakers: Social Retrofuturism in the Steampunk Novels of Gail Carriger and Cherie Priest No access
Chapter 3. Corsets of Steel: Steampunk’s Reimagining of Victorian Femininity No access
Chapter 4. Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica No access
Chapter 5. “Anything Is Possible for a Man in a Top Hat with a Monkey with a Monocle”: Remixing Steampunk in Professor Elemental’s The Indifference Engine No access
Chapter 6. “In Sum, Evil Has Prevailed”: The Moral Morass of Science and Exploration in Jacques Tardi’s The Arctic Marauder No access
Chapter 7. “Fulminations and Fulgurators”: Jules Verne, Karel Zeman, and Steampunk Cinema No access
