Pilgrims on wheels: the Pennells, F. W. Bockett, and literary cycle travels
| dc.contributor.author | Buchanan, Dave | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-21T16:26:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-08-21T16:26:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Laurence Sterne, eighteenth- century author of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, never rode a tricycle. He couldn’t have. The earliest prototype of bicycles and tricycles, the Draisine or hobbyhorse, wasn’t invented until after 1810, fifty years after Sterne died. But according to early cycle-travel writers Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell writing in 1887, Sterne would surely have appreciated leisure cycle travel, at least in the Pennells’ tandem-tricycle style; for it was, they claim, perfectly suited to Sterne’s meandering, sentimental disposition. In the dedicatory letter to the long- dead Sterne in Our Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, the Pennells claim that Sterne would have preferred cycle travel even to a railway carriage and that on a tandem tricycle with its two seats, Sterne “would still have a place for ‘the lady,’” a sly nod to the flirtatious tendencies of Sterne’s narrator in A Sentimental Journey, Mr. Yorick. | |
| dc.description.uri | https://library.macewan.ca/full-record/cat00565a/8145393 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Buchanan, D. (2016). Pilgrims on Wheels: The Pennells, F. W. Bockett, and literary cycle travels. In J. Withers, D. P. Shea, & Z. Furness (Eds.), Culture on Two Wheels: The Bicycle in Literature and Film (pp. 19–40). University of Nebraska Press. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/3186 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved | |
| dc.subject | cycle travel | |
| dc.subject | travel writers | |
| dc.subject | cycle-travel writing | |
| dc.subject | cycling history | |
| dc.title | Pilgrims on wheels: the Pennells, F. W. Bockett, and literary cycle travels | en |
| dc.type | Book Chapter |