Brogan, Una (Author)
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. (Publisher)
...MoreReview Henk-Jan Dekker (June 2024) Review of "The alternative modernity of the bicycle in British and French literature 1880-1920". The Journal of Transport History (pp. 181-183).
Book
Neil Carter;
(2021)
Cycling and the British : A modern history
(/isis/citation/CBB935145607/)
Article
Olha Martynyuk;
(December 2023)
Threatening mobility: Cycling during World War II from a Ukrainian perspective
(/isis/citation/CBB112036839/)
Article
Jason Finch;
(2022)
Unruly Tramscapes: Literary Mobilities and 1930s London Tramway Closure Events
(/isis/citation/CBB222042130/)
Book
Craig Horner;
(2021)
The Emergence of Bicycling and Automobility in Britain
(/isis/citation/CBB191478480/)
Book
G. B. Norcliffe;
Cox, Peter;
Hadland, Tony;
Jones, Tim;
Vivanco, Luis;
Brogan, Una;
(2022)
Routledge companion to cycling
(/isis/citation/CBB448010760/)
Book
Andrew F. Humphries;
(2017)
D.H. Lawrence, transport and cultural transition: 'a great sense of journeying'
(/isis/citation/CBB949774177/)
Book
Ruth Livesey;
(2016)
Writing the stage coach nation: locality on the move in nineteenth-century British literature
(/isis/citation/CBB775622029/)
Book
Glen B. Norcliffe;
(2015)
Critical Geographies of Cycling: History, Political Economy and Culture
(/isis/citation/CBB073093050/)
Book
Frédéric Héran;
(2014)
Le retour de la bicyclette. Une histoire des déplacements urbains en Europe, de 1817 à 2050
(/isis/citation/CBB274307328/)
Book
Albert Koehl;
(2024)
Wheeling through Toronto: A History of the Bicycle and Its Riders
(/isis/citation/CBB037091068/)
Chapter
Graham Matthews;
(2020)
‘A Push-Button Type of Thinking’: Automation, Cybernetics, and AI in Midcentury British Literature
(/isis/citation/CBB748811083/)
Book
Charlotte Sussman;
(2020)
Peopling the world : Representing human mobility from Milton to Malthus
(/isis/citation/CBB398682486/)
Book
Michael Ra-shon Hall;
(2021)
Freedom beyond confinement: travel and imagination in African American cultural history and letters
(/isis/citation/CBB148156098/)
Article
Jacob Harris;
(2023)
“Car, car over all, it has taken a terrible hold of us”: Experiencing automobility in interwar Britain and Germany
(/isis/citation/CBB939700882/)
Book
Mathieu Flonneau;
(2016)
L'automobile : au Temps des Trente Glorieuses: Un Rêve D’automobilisme [Automobile During the Glorious Thirties: Automobilism’s Dream]
(/isis/citation/CBB551018895/)
Book
Evan Friss;
(2019)
On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City
(/isis/citation/CBB054603076/)
Article
Malini Sur;
(March 2017)
Life Cycle
(/isis/citation/CBB803938467/)
Article
Martin Emanuel;
(June 2019)
From Victim to Villain: Cycling, Traffic Policy, and Spatial Conflicts in Stockholm, circa 1980
(/isis/citation/CBB821111319/)
Article
Marc Dijk;
Anique Hommels;
Manuel Stoffers;
(December 2021)
The Transformation of Urban Mobility Practices in Maastricht (1950–1980): Coevolution of Cycling and Car Mobility
(/isis/citation/CBB844993749/)
Article
Mikiya Koyagi;
(June 2024)
Pedalling in Pahlavi Iran: Cycle mobility and competing masculinities
(/isis/citation/CBB535620291/)
Be the first to comment!