| Edition |
1st paperback ed. |
| Description |
xxvi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Ken Dvorak -- Part I. Reimagining characters, reconfiguring relationships : Some notes on the steampunk social problem novel / Catherine Siemann -- Useful troublemakers: social retrofuturism in the steampunk novels of Gail Carriger and Cherie Priest / Mike Perschon -- Corsets of steel: steampunk's reimagining of Victorian femininity / Julie Anne Taddeo -- Love and the machine: technology and human relationships in steampunk romance and erotica / Dru Pagliassotti -- "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 / Jamieson Ridenhour -- Part II. REfurbishing time and place : "In sum, evil has prevailed": the moral morass of science and exploration in Jacques Tardi's The Arctic marauder / Erika Behrisch Elce -- "Fulminations and fulgurators": Jules Verne, Karel Zeman, and steampunk cinema / John C. Tibbetts -- Airships east, zeppelins west: steampunk's fantastic frontiers / Cynthia J. Miller -- Enacting the never-was: upcycling the past, present, and future in steampunk / Suzanne Barber, Matt Hale -- Objectified and politicized: the dynamics of ideology and consumerism in steampunk subculture / Diana M. Pho -- Part III. Retrofitting things : "Love the machine, hate the factory": steampunk design and the vision of a Victorian future / Sally-Anne Huxtable -- Steve Jobs versus the Victorians: steampunk, design, and the history of technology in society / Amy Sue Bix -- Remaking the world: the steampunk inventor on page and screen / A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Steampunk's legacy: collecting and exhibiting the future of yesterday / Jeanette Atkinson -- Afterword : Steampunk: looking at the evidence / Jeff VanderMeer. |
| Summary |
"This collection 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. [It] offers a wide-ranging look at the impact of steampunk, as well as the individuals who create, interpret, and consume it." --Publisher information. |
| Subject |
Steampunk fiction -- History and criticism.
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Steampunk fiction. |
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Steampunk culture.
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Steampunk culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Taddeo, Julie Anne, editor.
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Miller, Cynthia J., 1958- editor.
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| ISBN |
0810885875 electronic book |
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0810893150 paperback |
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0810885867 Cloth |
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9780810885875 electronic book |
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9780810885868 Cloth |
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9780810893153 paperback |
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