Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities - Literary Retrofuturisms, Media Archaeologies, Alternate Histories

Showing how nineteenth-century literary history works when confronted by technological repurposing, electronic-based object work, alternate history, and non-human temporalities, this book theorizes steampunk's histories and technologies. It examines how the development of steampunk parallels developments in the digital humanities, arguing for a properly digital and conjectural approach to 19C literary history, emphasizing the possibilities in steampunk technology, literature, and culture. It visits authors, programmers, and designers navigating the complexities of alternate history, constructing a Digital Humanities methodology via the historical potential found in the nineteenth century.

List of contents

Contents
Introduction: Alternate Histories of the Digital Humanities
1 Difference Engines
2 Multicultural Techniques
3 Anthropogenic Computing
4 Dialectical Engines
5 Queer Publics
Epilogue: Processual Histories

About the author

Roger Whitson is Assistant Professor of English at Washington State University, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Whitson, Whitson Roger
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2016
• EAN: 9781138859500
• ISBN: 978-1-138-85950-0
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Science Fiction, Fantasy, Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Impact of science and technology on society, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism