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
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).
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*
[This book is] the first compilation of academic texts on the
subject. . . .This is a good overview of the many aspects of the
[Steampunk] movement.
*Popcultureshelf.com*
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