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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
http://bit.ly/ethernavsa2016Pronouns: she, her, hers & they, them, theirs