Library of Gender and Popular Culture #: Steampunk

Gender, Subculture and the Neo-Victorian

Library of Gender and Popular Culture #: Steampunk
Claire Nally
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Paperback
h216 x 138mm - 304pg
28 Jan 2021 UK
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9781350194502
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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?

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Nally' s accessible and engaging interdisciplinary study provides a very welcome new perspective on the various repercussions of steampunk. -- Susanne Gruss, lecturer in English Literature and Culture, FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany Looking seriously at material productions-from corsets, to artworks, to e-zines, to graphic novels-she asks questions inspired by intersectional feminism and considers whose identities these reflect, [and] whose interests they serve. -- Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women' s Studies and Professor of Humanities, University of Delaware, USA Nally convincingly demonstrates that we need to attend to the particulars of how steampunk is created, received, and even contested, whether in the form of Alan Moore' s graphic novels, the multi-genre persona created by Emilie Autumn, or "postfeminist" romance. Her boundary-crossing study thus challenges us to rethink our generalizations about steampunk' s joy in anachronism and its fascination with Britain' s lost empire. -- Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, Professor of English, State University of New York, College at Brockport, USA
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).
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781350194502
Published: 28 Jan 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 304

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