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- Author: Una Brogan
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN-10: 1474488617
- ISBN-13: 9781474488617
- Format: 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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This book engages with the longoverlooked bicycle as a crucial literary and cultural object. In a selection of turnofthecentury fiction, travel writing and nonfiction, 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 countercultural 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 humanpowered route to progress amidst increasingly mechanised visions of the future.
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- Author: Una Brogan
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN-10: 1474488617
- ISBN-13: 9781474488617
- Format: 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
This book engages with the longoverlooked bicycle as a crucial literary and cultural object. In a selection of turnofthecentury fiction, travel writing and nonfiction, 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 countercultural 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 humanpowered route to progress amidst increasingly mechanised visions of the future.
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