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| Title: | The New Woman and Technologies of Speed in Fin-de- Siècle Literature |
| Authors: | 陳音頤
Chen, Eva |
| Contributors: | 英文系 |
| Keywords: | New Woman literature;speed;technology;commodity culture;bicycle;typewriter;women’s work |
| Date: | 2024-12 |
| Issue Date: | 2025-01-10 09:48:11 (UTC+8) |
| Abstract: | This book is about the New Woman’s interaction with techno-aided speed through her use of the typewriter and the bicycle. These technologies of speed are among the earliest to be associated with middle-class women, exposing them to the discipline of mechanized speed while also allowing for the construction of a new machine-savvy, sped-up, and energized female subjectivity. Used for women’s office work and daily movement, they demand from their women operators a response and an adaptation to speed right from the beginning. The ability to catch up with, imitate, adjust to, and finally master this mechanized speed is the key to the New Woman’s enlarged freedom in the modern city. By examining New Woman literature penned by George Gissing, H. G. Wells, Grant Allen, Geraldine Edith Mitton, and Mrs. Edward Kennard, and stories and comments published in popular magazines, I look at how mechanized speed works on the New Woman typist and cyclist, first as discipline and coercive control (in typewriting), then as commodity and conspicuous display (in cycling), and finally as rejuvenation and active thrill. Being fast, having speed, and adjusting to the shocks as well as the excitement of techno-aided speed is a crucial part of what makes the New Woman new, as she stakes a claim to modern speed culture as new players. |
| Relation: | Oxford University Press |
| Data Type: | book |
| ISBN: | 9780198922254 |
| DOI 連結: | https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198922285.001.0001 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/9780198922285.001.0001 |
| Appears in Collections: | [英國語文學系] 專書/專書篇章
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