Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French - Literature, 1880192

Examines the bicycle as a literary device and a cultural phenomenon at the turn of the century in Britain and France.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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 migrants' rights NGO and is involved in environmental activism. She has contributed chapters on bicycles in literature to edited collections and journals, including Mobilities, Literature, Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) Texts on Two Wheels: Bicycles in Literature and on Screen(University of Nebraska Press, 2016).

Zusammenfassung

Examines the bicycle as a literary device and a cultural phenomenon at the turn of the century in Britain and France.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Una Brogan, Una (Independent Scholar Brogan, Una Brogan
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781474488617
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-8861-7
• Seiten: 292
• Serie: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein