Steaming into a Victorian Future
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Steaming into a Victorian Future

A Steampunk Anthology

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Steaming into a Victorian Future

A Steampunk Anthology

About this book

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 steampunkā€”both separately and in relation to each otherā€”in order to better understand the steampunk sub-culture and its effect onā€”and interrelationship withā€”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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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: Reimagining Characters/Reconfiguring Relationships
  6. Chapter 1: Some Notes on the Steampunk Social Problem Novel
  7. Chapter 2: Useful Troublemakers: Social Retrofuturism in the Steampunk Novels of Gail Carriger and Cherie Priest
  8. Chapter 3: Corsets of Steel: Steampunkā€™s Reimagining of Victorian Femininity
  9. Chapter 4: Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica
  10. Chapter 5: ā€œAnything Is Possible for a Man in a Top Hat with a Monkey with a Monocleā€: Remixing Steampunk in Professor Elementalā€™s The Indifference Engine
  11. Part II: Refurbishing Time and Place
  12. Chapter 6: ā€œIn Sum, Evil Has Prevailedā€: The Moral Morass of Science and Exploration in Jacques Tardiā€™s The Arctic Marauder
  13. Chapter 7: ā€œFulminations and Fulguratorsā€: Jules Verne, Karel Zeman, and Steampunk Cinema
  14. Chapter 8: Airships East, Zeppelins West: Steampunkā€™s Fantastic Frontiers
  15. Chapter 9: Enacting the Never-Was: Upcycling the Past, Present, and Future in Steampunk
  16. Chapter 10: Objectified and Politicized: The Dynamics of Ideology and Consumerism in Steampunk Subculture
  17. Part III: Retrofitting Things
  18. Chapter 11: ā€œLove the Machine, Hate the Factoryā€: Steampunk Design and the Vision of a Victorian Future
  19. Chapter 12: Steve Jobs versus the Victorians: Steampunk, Design, and the History of Technology in Society
  20. Chapter 13: Remaking the World: The Steampunk Inventor on Page and Screen
  21. Chapter 14: Steampunkā€™s Legacy: Collecting and Exhibiting the Future of Yesterday
  22. Afterword: Steampunk: Looking at the Evidence
  23. About the Editors, Contributors, and Artists