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The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French Literature, 1880 1920
Engelsk Hardback

The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French Literature, 1880 1920

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
292
ISBN-13:
9781474488600
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1474488609
Udg. Dato:
25 mar 2022
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
240mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
25 mar 2022
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