The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French Literature, 1880-1920
Brogan, Una
| Autor: | Brogan, Una |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Literature - Classics / Criticism |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 25.03.2022 |
| EAN: | 9781474488600 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 292 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Edinburgh University Press |
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Examines the bicycle as a literary device and a cultural phenomenon at the turn of the century in Britain and France 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. Una Brogan is an independent researcher and translator and received her PhD at Université Paris 7-Diderot.
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