幻設小說可提供讀者思考另類的時間和歷史框架，讓他們通過比較對照的方式，審視其所處的環境和文化，因此推理小說也成為參與者反思自我及其所處環境的最佳媒介。儘管蒸汽龐克興起的時間相對較短，但它已然從一文類發展成為一種次文化，其影響所及可在各種媒介體上窺見。隨著蒸汽龐克的發展與盛行，其整體作品的多樣性及繁複性也不斷的轉向，這也引發了更多學者開始關注並論述何謂蒸汽龐克。傳統上蒸汽龐克一直與維多利亞時代的美學和復古未來主義連結一起，但由於其文類內部的模糊性日益增長，使得它原有的維多利亞元素特質備受爭議與挑戰。蒸汽龐克因著它的多樣繁複的變化成為一具有對立和混雜特質的多元組合體，這也使得該文類作品同時兼具自我矛盾和自我解構的特質，因此在研究主軸方向上，與其嘗試在其複雜的面向中尋找交集與共識，不如聚焦討論建構蒸汽龐克此文類的關鍵特質，亦即其模擬兩可的含糊性。本篇論文嘗試自個體性、物質性、技術性和敘事性四面向，探究存在於蒸汽龐克內部空間的多元繁複樣態，藉以呈現何以定義蒸汽龐克此文類為一極複雜的嘗試，據此一方面凸顯其於看似矛盾的組合中所表徵的意涵，另一方面亦勾勒蒸汽龐克的未來走向。論文從系譜研究的視角，針對與蒸汽龐克相關的內部和外圍現存的案例，進行對話與析論，藉以爬梳蒸汽龐克的發展取徑及其拼補的意涵與手段。事實上，蒸汽龐克的差異性經過梳理調和後，在其分類上仍然保有其複雜性，儘管其本身原具的零碎性，此文類的高度適應性卻也同時維繫住其自身的完整性和脆弱性。

Speculative fiction allows its readers to consider alternate timeframes and histories and examine their own environments and culture via comparison and absence, and therefore ultimately functions as a means for participants to speculate about themselves and the environments which they inhabit. Despite steampunk’s relatively short existence as an official genre, it has expanded from a literary genre into a subculture, with its influence now visible across a variety of mediums. As its popularity and dimensions have increased, so has the variety in its collective body of work, resulting in discourse of what is considered as steampunk. Though steampunk has traditionally been associated with retrofuturism and a Victorian-inspired aesthetic, these aspects have been disputed and challenged due to the increased ambiguities within the genre. Steampunk, already a genre of opposites and amalgamations, has become diverse enough that its own work can be simultaneously self-contradicting and self-resolving, necessitating a discussion of the ambiguities of which steampunk is comprised, rather than attempting to come to a consensus. This thesis is an exploration of the spaces that exist within steampunk—focusing on individuality, materiality, technicity, and narrativity, respectively—to examine why the attempt to define the genre has proved so complex an undertaking, the implications of bringing seemingly contradictory inspirations together, and what this may indicate for steampunk’s future. Through a genealogical perspective, dialogue will be drawn from extant examples within and around steampunk as a means to consider its trajectory and the significance of bricolage. Although the discrepancies that are reconciled in steampunk have resulted in the complications of its categorization, the genre’s penchant for adaptability in the face of fragmentation are simultaneously what sustains its integrity and its fragility.

Table of Contents
Thesis Validation i
Thesis Authorization Paper ii
Acknowledgements iii
摘要 iv
Abstract v
Table of Figures vii
Introduction 1
Section I. Individuality 19
Section II. Materiality 47
Section III. Technicity 61
Section IV. Narrativity 79
Conclusion 93
Works Cited 99

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