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Presents a collection of essays looking at the social and cultural aspects of steampunk and its relationship to popular culture.
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Introduction
Chapter 1: Some Notes on the Steampunk Social Problem Novel
Catherine Siemann
Chapter 2: Useful Troublemakers: Social Retrofuturism in the Steampunk Novels of Gail Carriger and Cherie Priest
Mike Perschon
Chapter 3: Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity
Julie Anne Taddeo
Chapter 4: Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica
Dru Pagliassotti
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
Jamieson Ridenhour
Chapter 6: "In sum, evil has prevailed": The Moral Morass of Science and Exploration in Jacques Tardi's The Arctic Marauder
Erika Behrisch Elce
Chapter 7: "Fulminations and Fulgurators": Jules Verne, Karel Zeman, and Steampunk Cinema
John C. Tibbetts
Chapter 8: Airships East, Zeppelins West: Steampunk's Fantastic Frontiers
Cynthia J. Miller
Chapter 9: Enacting the Never-Was: Upcycling the Past, Present, and Future in Steampunk
Suzanne Barber and Matt Hale
Chapter 10: Objectified and Politicized: The Dynamics of Ideology and Consumerism in Steampunk Subculture
Diana M. Pho
Chapter 11: "Love the Machine, Hate the Factory": Steampunk Design and the Vision of a Victorian Future
Sally-Anne Huxtable
Chapter 12: Steve Jobs versus the Victorians: Steampunk, Design, and the History of Technology in Society
Amy Sue Bix
Chapter 13: Remaking the World: The Steampunk Inventor on Page and Screen
A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Chapter 14: Steampunk's Legacy: Collecting and Exhibiting the Future of Yesterday
Jeanette Atkinson
Afterword
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Julie Anne Taddeo teaches British History at University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity (2002), co-editor of The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV and History (2009), and editor of Catherine Cookson Country: On the Borders of Legitimacy, Fiction, and History (2012).
Cynthia J. Miller is the Film Review Editor of Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies. She is the editor of Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small (Scarecrow, 2012) and coeditor of 1950s "Rocketman" TV Series and Their Fans: Cadets, Rangers, and Junior Space Men (2012) and Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier (Scarecrow, 2012).
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This collection of essays explores the social and cultural aspects of steampunk, examining the various manifestations of this multi-faceted genre, in order to better understand the steampunk sub-culture and its effect on—and interrelationship with—popular culture and the wider society.
