Böcker av Jeremy Withers

Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H.G. Wells's works: the bicycle. In The War of the Wheels, Withers examines this mode of transportation as both something that played a significant role in Wells's personal life and as a literary device for creating elaborate characters and exploring complex themes.

Analyses the shifting cultural significance of the bicycle by examining its appearances in literary, musical, and cinematic works. 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 analyses the appearance of bicycles in canonical and well-known texts.