{"product_id":"the-alternative-modernity-of-the-bicycle-in-british-and-french-literature-1880-1920-9781474488617","title":"The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French Literature, 1880 - 1920","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45031055884439,"sku":"9781474488617","price":3773.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781474488617.webp?v=1769206349","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-alternative-modernity-of-the-bicycle-in-british-and-french-literature-1880-1920-9781474488617","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}