Autonomous locomotion and figures of women saddled up in the “century of speed”

At the dawn of the “century of speed”, the technological improvement of autonomous means of locomotion marks a turning point. A new era opens, not only in the history of civilization, but also for the narrative regimes of the universe of the novel, which then tends to refocus on individual destinies. Those of figures of women, whose empowerment was linked to the novelistic use of wheeled devices, draw particular attention.