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Velocipedomania

A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France

By: Corry Cropper,Seth Whidden

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Velocipedomania

A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France

By: Corry Cropper,Seth Whidden

When blacksmith Pierre Michaux affixed pedals to the front axle of a two-wheeled scooter with a seat, he helped kick off a craze known as velocipedomania, which swept France in the late 1860s. The immediate forerunner of the bicycle, the velocipede similarly reflected changing cultural attitudes and challenged gender norms. Velocipedomania is the first in-depth study of the velocipede fad and the popular culture it inspired. It explores how the device was hailed as a symbol of France’s cutting-edge technological advancements, yet also marketed as an invention with a noble pedigree, born from the nation’s cultural and literary heritage. Giving readers a window into the material culture and enthusiasms of Second Empire France, it provides the first English translations of 1869’s Manual of the Velocipede, 1868’s Note on Monsieur Michaux’s Velocipede, and the 1869 operetta Dagobert and his Velocipede. It also reprints scores of rare images from newspapers and advertisements, analyzing how these magnificent machines captured the era’s visual imagination. By looking at how it influenced French attitudes towards politics, national identity, technology, fashion, fitness, and gender roles, this book shows how the short-lived craze of velocipedomania had a big impact.

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Rutgers University Press

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Playing at Monarchy

Sport As Metaphor in Nineteenth-century France

By: Corry Cropper

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Playing at Monarchy

Sport As Metaphor in Nineteenth-century France

By: Corry Cropper

Playing at Monarchy looks at the ways sports and games (tennis, fencing, bullfighting, chess, trictrac, hunting, and the Olympics) are metaphorically used to defend and subvert, to praise and mock both class and political power structures in nineteenth-century France. Corry Cropper examines what shaped these games of the nineteenth-century and how they appeared as allegory in French literature (in the fiction of Balzac, M(r)rim(r)e, and Flaubert), and in newspapers, historical studies, and even game manuals. Throughout, he shows how the representation of play in all types of literature mirrors the most important social and political rifts in postrevolutionary France, while also serving as propaganda for competing political agendas. Though its focus is on France, Playing at Monarchy hints at the way these nineteenth-century developments inform perceptions of sport even today

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803218990

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Marianne Meets the Mormons

Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France

By: Heather Belnap,Corry Cropper,Daryl Lee

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Marianne Meets the Mormons

Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France

By: Heather Belnap,Corry Cropper,Daryl Lee

In the nineteenth century, a fascination with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made Mormons and Mormonism a common trope in French journalism, art, literature, politics, and popular culture. Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee bring to light French representations of Mormonism from the 1830s to 1914, arguing that these portrayals often critiqued and parodied French society. Mormonism became a pretext for reconsidering issues such as gender, colonialism, the family, and church-state relations while providing artists and authors with a means for working through the possibilities of their own evolving national identity. Surprising and innovative, Marianne Meets the Mormons looks at how nineteenth-century French observers engaged with the idea of Mormonism in order to reframe their own cultural preoccupations.

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University of Illinois Press

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Playing at Monarchy

Sport As Metaphor in Nineteenth-century France

By: Corry Cropper

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Sport As Metaphor in Nineteenth-century France

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Marianne Meets the Mormons

Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France

By: Heather Belnap,Corry Cropper,Daryl Lee

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Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France

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Velocipedomania

A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France

By: Corry Cropper,Seth Whidden

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A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France

By: Corry Cropper,Seth Whidden

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Velocipedomania

Velocipedomania

Playing at Monarchy

Playing at Monarchy

Marianne Meets the Mormons

Marianne Meets the Mormons

Playing at Monarchy

Playing at Monarchy

Marianne Meets the Mormons

Marianne Meets the Mormons

Velocipedomania

Velocipedomania

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