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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/13029| Appears in Collections: | Literature and Languages Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | 'The Steam Arm': Proto-Steampunk Themes in a Victorian Popular Song |
| Author(s): | Blair, Kirstie |
| Contact Email: | kirstie.blair@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | music-hall prosthesis proto-steampunk song steam steampunk technology |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| Date Deposited: | 22-May-2013 |
| Citation: | 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. |
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