Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory by Esser, Helena

Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory

Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this...
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Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory by Esser, Helena

Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory

€271,56

Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory

€271,56
Author: Helena Esser
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between neo-Victorianism, urban spaces and Steampunk. Characterised by its interplay between past and present and its anachronistic retro-speculation, Neo-Victorian-infused Steampunk remixes modern collective memory to produce a re-imagined vision of Victorian London. Investigating how Steampunk's re-calibrated Londons both source from and subvert Victorian discourse about the city, Steampunk London offers a deeper understanding of how a popular cultural memory of the Victorian past is shaped and transmitted in light of present-day identity politics.

Covering key themes including retrofuturism, gender and sexuality, colonialism and postcolonialism, it considers such ideas as how early Steampunk synthesizes Victorian urban ethnography; how Victorian urban Gothic shapes shared transmedia memory to challenge reactionary, nostalgic meta-narratives; how Steampunk video games mobilize urban space as an immersive storytelling device with cities open to play; and how Steampunk interprets the modern metropolis as an opportunity for feminist and queer agency. Through examination of Victorian-era writers from Charles Dickens to Arthur Conan Doyle, the book digs into works of fiction and media alike, looking at The Difference Engine, Soulless, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, cyberpunk classic Blade Runner, and Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and The Order 1886. An important intervention in the study of steampunk, Helena Esser demonstrates how the works explored invite participatory consumption and considers the genre's potential- and failures- to interrogate and challenge our relationship with the Victorian past.

Author: Helena Esser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 08/22/2024
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781350433908

About the Author
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'.

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