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Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point
- Author(s):
- Rachel Bowser (see profile) , Brian Croxall (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
- Subject(s):
- Culture--Study and teaching, Literature and science
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference 2015
- Tag(s):
- Cultural studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6K01S
- Abstract:
- This paper questions how Wolfgang Schivelbusch's seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack thereof. It closes by juxtaposing the oft-cited appeal of steampunk's ability to counteract "too smooth" and "inauthentic" contemporary technologies with the fact that the train itself was perceived as being inauthentic and disconnected from nature.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- Attribution
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