Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities: Literary Retrofuturisms, Media Archaeologies, Alternate Histories

ISBN-13: 9780367872717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str.

Roger Whitson

Opis

Showing how nineteenth-century literary history works when confronted by technological repurposing, electronic-based object work, alternate history, and non-human temporalities, this book theorizes steampunk’s histories and technologies. It examines how the development of steampunk parallels developments in the digital humanities, arguing for a

Spis treści

Contents

Introduction: Alternate Histories of the Digital Humanities

1 Difference Engines

2 Multicultural Techniques

3 Anthropogenic Computing

4 Dialectical Engines

5 Queer Publics

Epilogue: Processual Histories

O autorze

Roger Whitson is Assistant Professor of English at Washington State University, USA.