Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory
Autor Dr Helena Esseren Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 aug 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350433908
ISBN-10: 135043390X
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 135043390X
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Explores some of the more obvious texts within the genre such as The Difference Engine but does this alongside new material and with a unique lens exploring the representation of the city in popular TV, films and videogames including Sweeney Todd, Ripper Street, Penny Dreadful and Assassins Creed.
Notă biografică
Helena Esser is an independent scholar based in Germany. She completed her PhD at Birkbeck College in 2020 and has published regularly on steampunk and Neo-Victorianism in journals such as Neo-Victorian Studies, Victorian Popular Fictions, and Humanities. She is the author of Ouida for the Key Popular Women's Writing series and organizes the Victorian Popular Fiction Associations reading group on 'The Third Sex'.
Cuprins
Introduction: Punked Pasts and Cyborg Cities 1. Different Engines: Seminal Steampunk and the Foundations of Gonzo-Victorian London 1.1 The California Trifecta: Time Travelers, Morlocks, and Mayhew's 'shabby-seedy' London1.2 Clackers, Computers, and Urban Revolution 2. East End Punk: neo-Victorianism, Urban Gothic, and Collective Knowledge2.1 Devils, Detectives, and Deep Topographies2.2 Remixing Whitechapel: Marxist Body Horror in Second-Wave Steampunk 3. Hyper-City: Steampunk's Retro-Speculative Video Game Spaces3.1 Immersive Historical Play in Assassins Creed: Syndicate3.2 Blade Runnering the Victorian City in The Order 1886 4. Re-claiming the Retrofuture: Feminism and Gender in fin-de-siècle and Steampunk London4.1 The New Woman as Modern Flâneuse4.2 In Hindsight: Fraught Feminisms, Action Girls, and the Steampunk Heroine4.3 Beyond the Binary: Anachronism as Queer Potential Conclusion: An Exercise Bicycle for the Mind BibliographyIndex