Geoffrey Hondroudakis Geoffrey Hondroudakis i(11446962 works by)
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1 The Ends of Empire : Australian Steampunk and the Reimagining of Euro-Modernity Catriona Mills , Geoffrey Hondroudakis , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , December vol. 33 no. 4 2018;

'The rise of steampunk – speculative-fiction works set in a Victorian or pseudo-Victorian world marked by steam-powered technology – has led to a range of debates about what the genre is, what it does, and, more significantly for this paper, what it fails to do. Drawing on a range of steampunk works set in Australia, we explore the extent to which steampunk is able to grapple with coloniality, both in the Victorian period from which it draws and in the colonial present in which it is set. Is steampunk condemned to limit itself to a western-technocratic teleology or is it capable of critiquing or even circumventing colonial pasts? After setting out steampunk’s adherence to the problem-spaces of Euro-modernity, we focus closely on works by D.M. Cornish, Meljean Brook, and Dave Freer to highlight three ways in which authors writing Australian steampunk highlight non-hegemonic subjectivities and settings: secondary worlds and their historical distance, the mediated spaces of alternate histories, and the foregrounding of colonial brutalities in a traditional steampunk setting.'

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1 y separately published work icon Beyond Goggles and Corsets : Australian Steampunk Catriona Mills (lead researcher), Geoffrey Hondroudakis (researcher), St Lucia : AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2017 11446982 2017 single work bibliography criticism

Researched and written for AustLit, Beyond Goggles and Corsets contains two parts: a scholarly bibliography of more than 330 examples of steampunk written by Australian authors or set in Australia and a richly illustrated history of Australian steampunk and its position within the global genre and culture.

The research essay includes the following categories:

  • A Brief History of Steampunk
  • Thematic Concerns : An Overview
  • Romancing the Past : History and Victorianism
  • Alienation or Fetishisation : Technology in Steampunk
  • Filthies and Bushrangers : Class and Political Struggle
  • Gender and Sexuality : Corsets and Beyond
  • Steamroller : The Empire of Steampunk

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