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This collection of essays explores the social and cultural aspects of steampunk, examining the various manifestations of this multi-faceted genre, in order to better understand the steampunk sub-culture and its effect on-and interrelationship with-popular culture and the wider society.

Steampunk fiction --- Steampunk culture. --- Neo-Victorian culture --- Neo-Victorianism (Subculture) --- Steampunk subculture --- Subculture --- Steam punk fiction --- Fiction --- History and criticism.

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Histories for the Many examines the contribution of illustrated family magazines to Victorian historical culture. How, by whom, for whom and with which intentions was history used within this popular medium? How were class, gender, age, religion, and space debated? How were academic and popular approaches to the past linked to the materiality of the medium? The focus is set on the evangelical Leisure Hour with comparisons to the London Journal, Good Words and Cornhill. The study's approach to the serialisation of history in text and image combines periodical studies and book history with concepts from cultural studies, sociology as well as narratology. »An innovative study into an intriguing yet underexplored aspect of nineteenth-century journalism.« Samuel Saunders, Journal of European Periodical Studies, 3/2 (2018) Besprochen in: Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 26.10.2017, Janet G. Casey Victorian Periodicals Review, 50/4 (2017), Ruth M. McAdams Victorian Studies, 60/3 (2019), Jennifer Phegley Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 58/4 (2019), Andrea Henderson

Popular culture --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- History --- Periodicals; Victorian Culture; Historical Culture; Popular History; Popular Culture; Media; Social History; 19th Century; England; Cultural History; British History; Memory Culture; History --- 19th Century. --- British History. --- Cultural History. --- England. --- Historical Culture. --- History. --- Media. --- Memory Culture. --- Popular Culture. --- Popular History. --- Social History. --- Victorian Culture.

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Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary returns to the past as a means of assessing the function of things in remembering, revisioning, and/or reimagining the nineteenth century. Examining iterations of material culture in literature, film and popular television series, this volume offers a reconsideration of nineteenth-century things and the neo-Victorian cultural forms that they have inspired, animated, and even haunted. By turning to new and relatively underexplored strands of neo-Victorian materiality—including opium paraphernalia, slave ships, clothing, and biographical objects—and interrogating the critical role such objects play in reconstructing the past, this volume offers ways of thinking about how mis/apprehensions of material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things.

Steampunk culture. --- Steampunk fiction --- Steampunk films. --- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures --- Steam punk fiction --- Fiction --- Neo-Victorian culture --- Neo-Victorianism (Subculture) --- Steampunk subculture --- Subculture --- Literature, Modern --- Motion pictures. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Audio-Visual Culture. --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Literature --- History and criticism

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Just as the preoccupations of any given cultural moment make their way into the language of music, the experience of music makes its way into other arenas of life. To unearth these overlapping meanings and vocabularies from the Victorian era, Ruth A. Solie examines sources as disparate as journalism, novels, etiquette manuals, religious tracts, and teenagers' diaries for the muffled, even subterranean, conversations that reveal so much about what music meant to the Victorians. Her essays, giving voice to "what goes without saying" on the subject-that cultural information so present and pervasive as to go unsaid-fill in some of the most intriguing blanks in our understanding of music's history. This much-anticipated collection, bringing together new and hard-to-find pieces by an acclaimed musicologist, mines the abundant casual texts of the period to show how Victorian-era people-English and others-experienced music and what they understood to be its power and its purposes. Solie's essays start from topics as varied as Beethoven criticism, Macmillan's Magazine, George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, opera tropes in literature, and the Victorian myth of the girl at the piano. They evoke common themes-including the moral force that was attached to music in the public mind and the strongly gendered nature of musical practice and sensibility-and in turn suggest the complex links between the history of music and the history of ideas.

Music --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Social aspects. --- Music and society --- MUSIC --- Genres & Styles --- Classical. --- History & Criticism. --- Social aspects --- 1800-1899. --- beethoven. --- classical music. --- daniel deronda. --- diaries. --- domesticity. --- drawing room music. --- elsie dinsmore. --- entertainment. --- etiquette manuals. --- femininity. --- finishing school. --- gender roles. --- gender. --- george eliot. --- girl at piano. --- girlhood. --- history. --- journalism. --- journals. --- macmillans. --- music at home. --- music history. --- music. --- musicology. --- opera. --- parlor piano. --- piano music. --- playing piano. --- religious tracts. --- schubert. --- secular humanism. --- sensibility. --- transatlantic. --- victorian culture. --- victorian music. --- victorian novels. --- victorian period. --- women. --- womens history.

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This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political. The book is organised into three parts in dialogue regarding specific approaches to popular performance and politics. Part I offers a series of conceptual studies using popular culture as an analytical category for social and political history. Part II explores the ways that performance represents and constructs contemporary ideologies of race, nation and empire. Part III investigates the performance techniques of specific politicians - including Robert Peel, Keir Hardie and Henry Hyndman - and analyses the performative elements of collective movements.

Theater --- Popular culture --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Political aspects. --- Political aspects --- History --- 1800-1899 --- Great Britain. --- E-books --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Performance. --- Politics. --- Theatre. --- Victorian culture. --- popular culture.