Two-wheeled Sensibility: Sensory Engagement with Place in British, American and French Cycling Narratives, 1880–1914
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 wak...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-9a1e87eb15174d2e92f3b974f9a576292025-01-30T10:21:39ZengPresses Universitaires de la MéditerranéeCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens0220-56102271-61492016-05-018310.4000/cve.2611Two-wheeled Sensibility: Sensory Engagement with Place in British, American and French Cycling Narratives, 1880–1914Una BroganTexts 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.https://journals.openedition.org/cve/2611aestheticsliteraturecyclingcultural studiessensory perception |
| spellingShingle | Una Brogan Two-wheeled Sensibility: Sensory Engagement with Place in British, American and French Cycling Narratives, 1880–1914 Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens aesthetics literature cycling cultural studies sensory perception |
| title | Two-wheeled Sensibility: Sensory Engagement with Place in British, American and French Cycling Narratives, 1880–1914 |
| title_full | Two-wheeled Sensibility: Sensory Engagement with Place in British, American and French Cycling Narratives, 1880–1914 |
| title_fullStr | Two-wheeled Sensibility: Sensory Engagement with Place in British, American and French Cycling Narratives, 1880–1914 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Two-wheeled Sensibility: Sensory Engagement with Place in British, American and French Cycling Narratives, 1880–1914 |
| title_short | Two-wheeled Sensibility: Sensory Engagement with Place in British, American and French Cycling Narratives, 1880–1914 |
| title_sort | two wheeled sensibility sensory engagement with place in british american and french cycling narratives 1880 1914 |
| topic | aesthetics literature cycling cultural studies sensory perception |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/2611 |
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