Steampunk
Gender, Subculture and the Neo-Victorian
1st Edition
Published on 27. June 2019
304 pages
978-1-350-11320-6 (ISBN)
Description
What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations and aesthetics of the Victorian era, steampunk creatively warps history and presents an alternative future, imagined from a nineteenth-century perspective.
In her interdisciplinary book, Claire Nally delves into this contemporary subculture, explaining how the fashion, music, visual culture, literature and politics of steampunk intersect with theories of gender and sexuality. Exploring and occasionally critiquing the ways in which gender functions in the movement, she addresses a range of different issues, including the controversial trope of the Victorian asylum; gender and the graphic novel; the legacies of colonialism; science and the role of Ada Lovelace as a feminist steampunk icon. Drawing upon interviews, theoretical readings and textual analysis, Nally asks: why are steampunks fascinated by our Victorian heritage, and what strategies do they use to reinvent history in the present?
In her interdisciplinary book, Claire Nally delves into this contemporary subculture, explaining how the fashion, music, visual culture, literature and politics of steampunk intersect with theories of gender and sexuality. Exploring and occasionally critiquing the ways in which gender functions in the movement, she addresses a range of different issues, including the controversial trope of the Victorian asylum; gender and the graphic novel; the legacies of colonialism; science and the role of Ada Lovelace as a feminist steampunk icon. Drawing upon interviews, theoretical readings and textual analysis, Nally asks: why are steampunks fascinated by our Victorian heritage, and what strategies do they use to reinvent history in the present?
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-350-11320-6 (9781350113206)
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Person
Claire Nally is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK. Her first book was Envisioning Ireland: W. B. Yeats's Occult Nationalism (2009).
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
Chapter 1 Steampunk: The Politics of Subversion?
Chapter 2 Doctor Geof and Nick Simpson: Sex, War and Masculinity
Chapter 3 Freak Show Femininities: Emilie Autumn
Chapter 4 Steampunk and the Graphic Novel
Chapter 5 Steampunk Romance: Gail Carriger and Kate McAlister
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
Introduction
Chapter 1 Steampunk: The Politics of Subversion?
Chapter 2 Doctor Geof and Nick Simpson: Sex, War and Masculinity
Chapter 3 Freak Show Femininities: Emilie Autumn
Chapter 4 Steampunk and the Graphic Novel
Chapter 5 Steampunk Romance: Gail Carriger and Kate McAlister
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
