{"product_id":"the-alternative-modernity-of-the-una-brogan-9781474488617","title":"The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French Literature, 1880-1920","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Una Brogan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474488617\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474488617\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.61d","brand":"Una Brogan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44890741342463,"sku":"9781474488617","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c2b74889-897c-4953-9db6-114592e9b7f6.jpg?v=1709739894","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-alternative-modernity-of-the-una-brogan-9781474488617","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}