{"product_id":"the-alternative-modernity-of-the-bicycle-in-british-and-french-literature-1880-1920-paperback","title":"The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French Literature, 1880-1920 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eUna Brogan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUna Brogan is an independent researcher and translator. Her PhD was completed at Université Paris 7-Diderot and she subsequently taught at Université Lyon 3-Jean Moulin. Originally from Northern Ireland, she took degrees in French, history, literary translation and comparative literature at Oxford, Warwick and Paris IV-Sorbonne universities. She has also worked as a bicycle courier, for a migrants' rights NGO and is involved in environmental activism. She has contributed chapters on bicycles in literature to edited collections and journals, including \u003ci\u003eMobilities, Literature, Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) \u003ci\u003eTexts on Two Wheels: Bicycles in Literature and on Screen\u003c\/i\u003e(University of Nebraska Press, 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749587616032,"sku":"9781474488617","price":58.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2a96ed89e0b0fe142da5636d5c91bd17.webp?v=1779934205","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-alternative-modernity-of-the-bicycle-in-british-and-french-literature-1880-1920-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}