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The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French Literature, 1880-1920

by Una Brogan
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781474488600
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 292
  • Original Price: USD 130.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 581 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

This book engages with the long-overlooked bicycle as a crucial literary and cultural object. In a selection of turn-of-the-century fiction, travel writing and non-fiction, cycling is revealed to be a favoured literary device, allowing writers to structure their narratives in new ways or depict a fresh sensory and aesthetic experience. Moreover, this study reveals that from its earliest days, the bicycle played a compelling counter-cultural role, proposing an alternative modernity that directly challenged bourgeois, patriarchal, capitalist society. From blurring gender and class divisions, to offering a more empowering interaction with the machine and allowing an embodied and social experience of space, the bicycle pointed a human-powered route to progress amidst increasingly mechanised visions of the future.

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