Two-wheeled Sensibility: Sensory Engagement with Place in British, American and French Cycling Narratives, 1880–1914
| Autor: | Una Brogan |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />French |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, Vol 83 (2016) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0220-5610 2271-6149 |
| DOI: | 10.4000/cve.2611 |
| Popis: | Texts written in the early days of cycling hint at the appearance of a new and paradoxical engagement with space. On the one hand, the bicycle was a technology which provided personal mobility to a wide section of the population, whilst encouraging a multisensory engagement with landscape in the wake of the railways. On the other hand, cyclists’ accounts bear testament to a certain mechanization of the body and the senses, contributing to a visual, distancing experience of place which the railways had inaugurated. I argue that it is the unique combination of these two registers that defines the turn-of-the-century cycling aesthetic. |
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