Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction The Rhetoric of Steampunk -- Introduction: A Rhetoric of Steam -- Historical Roots of Steampunk -- Steampunk and Media Consumption -- Steampunk as a Participatory, Transformative Culture -- Steampunk as a Rhetorical System -- Looking Forward: A Rhetoric for the Future of Steampunk -- Conclusion: The Uses and Gratifications of Steampunk -- Notes -- A RHETORIC OF STEAMPUNK IDEOLOGY -- "There Is Hope for the Future" The (Dis)Enchantment of the Technician-Hero in Steampunk -- Steampunk as a Techno-Utopian Fantasy -- Steampunk as a Victorian Masculine Fantasy -- Concluding Remarks: Steampunk as Artful Deception -- Notes -- Victorians, Machines, and Exotic Others Steampunk and the Aesthetic of Empire -- The Steampunk Empire -- Steampunk's Different Engine of Empire -- Conquering Empire -- Notes -- Liberation and a Corset Examining False Feminism in Steampunk -- The Ties That Bind Victorian Fashion and Steampunk -- Performing Victorian Style -- Steampunk Discussion -- Notes -- A RHETORIC OF STEAMPUNK SEMIOTICS -- Antimodernism as the Rhetoric of Steampunk Anime Fullmetal Alchemist, Technological Anxieties, and Controlling the Machine -- Japanese Modernity -- Steampunk's Antimodernism as Victorian Neo-medievalism -- Anime as an Antimodern Medium -- Steampunk Anime -- Reading Fullmetal Alchemist as an Antimodern Text -- Medieval Motifs as Metaphor -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Jumping Scale in Steampunk One Gear Makes You Larger, One Duct Makes You Small -- The Aesthetic of Steampunk -- Jumping Scale Down -- Jumping Scale Up -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Steampunk and Sherlock Holmes Performing Post-Marxism -- The Theory of Steampunk -- The Object of Steampunk -- The Steampunk Sherlock -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- A RHETORIC OF STEAMPUNK NARRATIVE.

Kenneth Burke Meets a Time Lord Steampunk's Grammatical Disruption -- Steampunk Literature and Grammatical Disruption -- Doctor Who and a Steampunk Critic Step into a TARDIS -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Clockwork Counterfactuals Allohistory and the Steampunk Rhetoric of Inquiry -- Four Allohistorical Tropes in Steampunk -- Steampunk, Technology, Empire, and Inquiry -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Steampunk's Identity Horizon and Contested Memory -- Performing the Experiment -- The Aesthetic Memory of Public Subjectivity -- Global Articulations of Steampunk Identity -- Gothic Steam, Global Film, and Denationalized Supermen -- Punking Identity through Play -- Terry Gilliam Punks Empire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes Steampunk Superhero? -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.