DEFINING STEAMPUNK
STEAMPUNK IS A POPULAR ARTISTIC MOVEMENT that spans many genres, including fine art, music, performance, fashion, graphic design, and others; however, the inspiration for this steam-driven, industrial utopia filled with Victorian sights, textures, haberdashery, and otherworldly technology was originally born in ink from the masters of science-fiction literature.
Tales of adventure penned by the literary innovators of their time sparked steampunk to life. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) bridged the gap between ancient mythology and the imagination of science, thereby paving the way for the genre’s earliest origins. A few years later, the innovative literary techniques in Edgar Allan Poe’s horror stories emerged. Then Jules ...
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