
Culture on Two Wheels
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Bringing together essays by a variety of cyclists and scholars with myriad angles of approach, this collection highlights the bicycle's flexibility as a signifier and analyzes the appearance of bicycles in canonical and well-known texts such as Samuel Beckett's modernist novel Molloy, the Oscar-winning film Breaking Away, and various Stephen King novels and stories, as well as in lesser-known but equally significant texts, such as the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's film Sacrifice and Elizabeth Robins Pennell's nineteenth-century travelogue A Canterbury Pilgrimage, the latter of which traces the route of Chaucer's pilgrims via bicycle.
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"The brilliance of this book is that it makes for engrossing reading, while simultaneously inspiring the reader to get on a bicycle and simply ride. . . . [It makes] a fantastic contribution to current scholarship by engaging an actual thing in the world that has a rich history, a complex present, and maybe even-unlike most modes of human transit-a bright future."-Christopher Schaberg, associate professor of English and environmental theory at Loyola University and the author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of FlightMore details
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Untitled
- Foreword
- Introduction: The Bicycle as Rolling Signifier
- PART 1. BIKES IN LITERATURE
- 1. Pilgrims on Wheels: The Pennells, F. W. Bockett, and Literary Cycle Travels
- 2. From Charles Pratt to Mark Twain to Frank Norris: Horse versus Bicycle, Man versus Machine
- 3. " T he Face of the Bicyclist": Women's Cycling and the Altered Body in The Type- Writer Girl
- 4. Bicycles and Warfare: The Effects of Excessive Mobility in H. G. Wells's The War in the Air
- 5. Like a Furnace: Alfred Jarry's The Supermale, Doping, and the Limits of Positivism
- 6. Albertine the Cyclist: A Queer Feminist Bicycle Ride through Proust's In Search of Lost Time
- 7. The Existential Cyclist: Bicycles and Personal Responsibility in Simone de Beauvoir's The Blood of Others
- 8. Communing with Machines: The Bicycle as a Figure of Symbolic Transgression in the Posthumanist Novels of Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien
- 9. "Hi- Yo, Silver": The Bicycle in the Fiction of Stephen King
- PART 2. BIKES IN FILM
- 10. "I'll Get You, My Pretty!": Bicycle Horror and the Abject Cyclicity of History
- 11. Bicycles in Truffaut's Jules and Jim: Images of Emancipation and Repression
- 12. We Hope, and We Lose Hope: The Postman's Bicycle in Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice
- 13. Bicycle Borrowers after Neorealism: Global Nou- velo Cinema
- 14. Breaking Away and Vital Materialism: Embodying Dreams of Social Mobility via the Bicycle Assemblage
- 15. Beijing Bicycle: Desire, Identity, and the Wheels
- 16. "Swerve! I'm on My Bike": Mediated Images of Bicycling in Youth- Produced Hip- Hop
- Afterword: Form and History in the Bicycle Sculptures of Ai Weiwei
- Contributors
- Index
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