Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. It’s about Time: Reading Steampunk’s Rise and Roots
Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall
I. Steampunk Spaces and Things
1. Steampunk and the Victorian City: Time Machines, Bryan Talbot, and the Center of the Multiverse
David Pike
2. How to Theorize With a Hammer; or, Making and Baking Things in Steampunk and the Digital Humanities
Roger Whitson
3. The Steampunk City in Crisis
Catherine Siemann
II. Steampunk Bodies and Identities
4. From Steam Arms to Brass Goggles: Steampunk, Prostheses and Disability
Kathryn Crowther
5. The Aesthete, the Dandy, and the Steampunk; or Things as They are Now
Stefania Forlini
6. Punking the Other: On the Performance of Racial and National Identities in Steampunk
Diana M. Pho
III. Steampunk Reading and Revising
7. Seminal Steampunk: Proper and True
Mike Perschon
8. The Alchemy of Aether: Steampunk as Reading Practice in Karina Cooper’s Tarnished and Gilded
Lisa Hager
9. 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
Contributors
Index

About the Author

Rachel A. Bowser is associate professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College.

Brian Croxall is digital humanities librarian at Brown University.

Reviews

"A lively, engaging collection of essays about the past, present, future (and alternate versions thereof) of steampunk culture, literature and meaning, ranging from disability and queerness to ethos and digital humanities."—Boing Boing"Covering an impressive range of topics, from steampunk cities to how steampunk addresses disabilities and identity, the essays are scholarly and full of solid examples and research yet remain accessible."—CHOICE"There are layers of irony and of ironic irony here that would keep a critical Lyell occupied for decades."—Science Fiction Reviews