Clockwork Rhetoric: The Language and Style of Steampunk PDF
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CloCkwork rhetoriC XX CloCk work rhetoriC The Language and Style of Steampunk edited by Barry Brummett university press of mississippi JACkson XX www.upress.state.ms.us Designed by Peter D. Halverson The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Copyright © 2014 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 2014 ∞ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Clockwork rhetoric : the language and style of steampunk / edited by Barry Brummett. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-62846-091-9 (cloth) — ISBN 978-1-62846-092-6 (ebook) 1. Steampunk fiction—History and criticism. 2. Narration (Rhetoric) 3. Style, Literary. 4. Steampunk culture. I. Brummett, Barry, 1951– editor of compilation. PN3448.S73C58 2014 700'.411—dc23 2014001979 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available Contents Acknowledgments vii Editor’s Introduction The Rhetoric of Steampunk ix Barry Brummett Introduction A Rhetoric of Steam xiv David Beard A rhetoriC of steAmpunk ideology “There Is Hope for the Future” The (Dis)Enchantment of the Technician-Hero in Steampunk 3 Mirko M. Hall and Joshua Gunn Victorians, Machines, and Exotic Others Steampunk and the Aesthetic of Empire 19 Kristin Stimpson Liberation and a Corset Examining False Feminism in Steampunk 38 Mary Anne Taylor A rhetoriC of steAmpunk semiotiCs Antimodernism as the Rhetoric of Steampunk Anime Fullmetal Alchemist, Technological Anxieties, and Controlling the Machine 61 Elizabeth Birmingham vi Contents Jumping Scale in Steampunk One Gear Makes You Larger, One Duct Makes You Small 80 Barry Brummett Steampunk and Sherlock Holmes Performing Post-Marxism 94 Jaime Wright A rhetoriC of steAmpunk nArrAtive Kenneth Burke Meets a Time Lord Steampunk’s Grammatical Disruption 115 John R. Thompson Clockwork Counterfactuals Allohistory and the Steampunk Rhetoric of Inquiry 135 John M. McKenzie Steampunk’s Identity Horizon and Contested Memory 159 Andrew Mara Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes Steampunk Superhero? 177 Lisa Horton Contributors 203 Index 206 ACknowledgments Any press takes a chance in bringing out a new book, especially when the book is the first of its kind. The editor and contributors wish to thank the University Press of Mississippi for their wise guidance and efficient develop- ment of this manuscript. vii
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