From Chemistry to Cogs: Ether’s Victorian Aestheticism & Contemporary Steampunk

FROM CHEMISTRY TO COGS

ETHER’S VICTORIAN AESTHETICISM & CONTEMPORARY STEAMPUNK

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STEAMPUNK & TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ETHER

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STEAMPUNK & TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ETHER

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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

James Clerk Maxwell

ETHER IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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ETHER IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Woodcut of John Davidson by Robert Bryden

Poets of the younger generation 1902 by William

Archer

The Magazine of poetry and literary review, Volume 8 (1896) The Peter Paul Book Company

Contemporary portraits By Frank Harris 1915

 James Russell, photographer

Portrait of John Davidson by William Rothenstein

The Yellow Book, Vol. 4 (1895)

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JOHN DAVIDSON’S “FLEET STREET”

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1909.

JOHN DAVIDSON’S “FLEET STREET”

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A bus makes its way down Fleet Street towards St Paul’s Cathedral, London, circa 1888. Photograph: London Stereoscopic Company/Getty

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JOHN DAVIDSON’S “FLEET STREET”

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“Fleet Street,” lines 63-73

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“Fleet Street,” lines 74-76

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“I felt it; I lived it, I struggled against it as the pressure built and built. As it thrashed against the boundary of me. As it fought for purchase . . . It was trying to overtake me. It was trying to devour me!” (238)

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“High, keening pants filled the room and I realized somewhere that it was me. That I struggled to breathe and had no ability to censor myself. That I was shamelessly encouraging him with every dip of his tongue, every rasp of his lips and soul-shocking skim of his teeth” (238)

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FROM CHEMISTRY TO COGS

ETHER’S VICTORIAN AESTHETICISM & CONTEMPORARY STEAMPUNK

Lisa Hagerlisa.hager@uwc.edu || @lmhager

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