Book ID: CBB738736067

The alternative modernity of the bicycle in British and French literature 1880-1920 (2022)

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Brogan, Una (Author)


Edinburgh University Press


Publication Date: 2022
Edition Details: Book series: Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Physical Details: 276
Language: English

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)

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Review 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). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Norcliffe, Glen B.
Carter, Neil
Flonneau, Mathieu
Hommels, Anique
Stoffers, Manuel
Hadland, Tony
Journals
Transfers
The Journal of Transport History
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Bloomsbury Academic
Columbia University Press
Éditions La Découverte
Palgrave Macmillan
Routledge
Concepts
Mobility
Bicycles
Technology and society
Land transportation
Technology and literature
Automobiles
People
Clarke, Arthur C.
Frayn, Michael
Edge, Selwyn Francis
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
India
Iran
Taiwan
Canada
China
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