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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154855103321

Titolo

Like Clockwork [[electronic resource] ] : Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures / / Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall [editors]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4529-5252-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

CroxallBrian

BowserRachel A

Disciplina

809.3/876

Soggetti

Steampunk fiction - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.