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- Author: Una Brogan
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN-10: 1474488609
- ISBN-13: 9781474488600
- Format: 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French Literature, 1880-1920 (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu
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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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- Author: Una Brogan
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN-10: 1474488609
- ISBN-13: 9781474488600
- Format: 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English 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.
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