The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French Literature, 1880-1920 - Paperback
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The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French Literature, 1880-1920
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...
Una 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...
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