Like clockwork : steampunk pasts, presents, and futures / Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall [editors].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowser, Rachel A.

Croxall, Brian.

JSTOR (Organization)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steampunk fiction--History and criticism.

Steampunk fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Once a small subculture, the steampunk phenomenon exploded in visibility during the first years of the twenty-first century, its influence and prominence increasing ever since. From its Victorian and literary roots to film and television, video games, music, and even fashion, this subgenre of science fiction reaches far and wide within current culture. Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall present cutting-edge essays on steampunk: its rise in popularity, its many manifestations, and why we should pay attention. Like Clockwork offers wide-ranging perspectives on steampunk's history and its place in contemporary culture, all while speaking to the "why" and "why now" of the genre. The essay focus on such topics as steampunk cities, the role of prosthetics, and the genre's fan cultures and vast diversity of racial and national identities, including African American steamfunk practitioners and British chap-hop artists. From disability and queerness to ethos and digital humanities, Like Clockwork explores the intriguing history of steampunk to evaluate the influence of the genre from the 1970s through the twenty-first century. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction. It's about time: reading steampunk's rise and roots / Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall

Steampunk spaces and things. Steampunk and the victorian city: time machines, Bryan Talbot, and the center of the multiverse / David Pike

How to theorize with a hammer; or, making and baking things in steampunk and the digital humanities / Roger Whitson

The steampunk city in crisis / Catherine Siemann

Steampunk bodies and identities. From steam arms to brass goggles: steampunk, prostheses and disability / Kathryn Crowther

The aesthete, the dandy, and the steampunk; or things as they are now / Stefania Forlini

Punking the other: on the performance of racial and national identities in steampunk / Diana M. Pho

Steampunk reading and revising. Seminal steampunk: proper and true / Mike Perschon

The alchemy of aether: steampunk as reading practice in Karina Cooper's Tarnished and Gilded / Lisa Hager

Out of control: disrupting technological mastery in Michael Moorcock's The warlord of the air and K. W. Jeter's Infernal devices / Joseph Weakland and Shaun Duke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Like clockwork

ISBN:

9781452952529

1452952523

Publisher Number:

40026689573

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Restricted for use by site license.