Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities

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 properly digital and conjectural approach to 19C literary history, emphasizing the possibilities in steampunk technology, literature, and culture. It visits authors, programmers, and designers navigating the complexities of alternate history, constructing a Digital Humanities methodology via the historical potential found in the nineteenth century.