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Blair K (2010) 'The Steam Arm': Proto-Steampunk Themes in a Victorian Popular Song. Neo-Victorian Studies, 3 (1), pp. 196-207. http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/
Abstract
This article introduces an early Victorian popular song, with some preliminary reflections on how it, and indeed similar texts, might be relevant to twentieth and twenty-first century practitioners and critics of steampunk. ‘The Steam Arm' describes a veteran who acquires a prosthetic limb, with disastrous consequences. As a text from the start of the ‘steam age', it reveals the fantasies and anxieties surrounding technological progress in early Victorian literature.
Keywords
music-hall; prosthesis; proto-steampunk; song; steam; steampunk; technology
Journal
Neo-Victorian Studies: Volume 3, Issue 1
| Status | Published |
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| Publication date | 31/12/2010 |
| Publication date online | 2010 |
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| Publisher | Swansea University |
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| ISSN | 1757-9481 |
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