Awards

• Winner of Peter C. Rollins Book Award in Popular Culture Studies 2013

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Author:   Julie Anne Taddeo ,  Cynthia J. Miller
Publisher:   Scarecrow Press
Imprint:   Scarecrow Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.653kg
ISBN:  

9780810885868

ISBN 10:   0810885867
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   20 September 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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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Steaming into a Victorian Future looks at the potential that steampunk has to be a contributor to social change through consideration of its past and present. This collection is vast in its scope, critically evaluating 'texts' from an array of genres from the past, present, and future of this literary movement and its surrounding subculture, and is as valuable as an introduction to steampunk and its possibilities as any of the fiction collections available. Monsters and the Monstrous

Author Information

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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