List of Illustrations Foreword Zack Furness Acknowledgments Introduction: The Bicycle as Rolling Signifier Jeremy Withers and Daniel P. Shea Part 1. Bikes in Literature 1. Pilgrims on Wheels: The Pennells, F. W. Bockett, and Literary Cycle Travels Dave Buchanan 2. From Charles Pratt to Mark Twain to Frank Norris: Horse versus Bicycle, Man versus Machine Peter Kratzke 3. "The Face of the Bicyclist": Women's Cycling and the Altered Body in The Type-Writer Girl Alyssa Straight 4.

Bicycles and Warfare: The Effects of Excessive Mobility in H. G. Wells's The War in the Air Jeremy Withers 5. Like a Furnace: Alfred Jarry's The Supermale , Doping, and the Limits of Positivism Corry Cropper 6. Albertine the Cyclist: A Queer Feminist Bicycle Ride through Proust's In Search of Lost Time Una Brogan 7. The Existential Cyclist: Bicycles and Personal Responsibility in Simone de Beauvoir's The Blood of Others Nanci J. Adler 8. Communing with Machines: The Bicycle as a Figure of Symbolic Transgression in the Posthumanist Novels of Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien Amanda Duncan 9.

"Hi-Yo, Silver": The Bicycle in the Fiction of Stephen King Don Tresca Part 2. Bikes in Film 10. "I'll Get You, My Pretty!": Bicycle Horror and the Abject Cyclicity of History Matthew Pangborn 11. Bicycles in Truffaut's Jules and Jim : Images of Emancipation and Repression Charles L. P. Silet 12. We Hope, and We Lose Hope: The Postman's Bicycle in Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice Benjamin van Loon 13. Bicycle Borrowers after Neorealism: Global Nou-velo Cinema Anne Ciecko 14.

Breaking Away and Vital Materialism: Embodying Dreams of Social Mobility via the Bicycle Assemblage Ryan Hediger 15. Beijing Bicycle : Desire, Identity, and the Wheels Jinhua Li 16. "Swerve! I'm on My Bike": Mediated Images of Bicycling in Youth-Produced Hip-Hop Melody Lynn Hoffmann Afterword: Form and History in the Bicycle Sculptures of Ai Weiwei Daniel P. Shea Contributors Index.