Rising star : dandyism, gender, and performance in the fin de siècle

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Label

Rising star : dandyism, gender, and performance in the fin de siècle

Title remainder

dandyism, gender, and performance in the fin de siècle

Statement of responsibility

Rhonda K. Garelick

Creator

• Garelick, Rhonda K., 1962-
• Garelick, Rhonda K., 1962-

Subject

• Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
• Dandies in literature
• Decadence (Literary movement) -- France
• French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
• Lorrain, Jean
• Mallarmé, Stéphane
• Sex role in literature
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
• Fuller, Loie
• Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules

Language

eng

Summary

Celebrity personalities, who reign over much of our cultural landscape, owe their fame not to specific deeds but to the ability to project a distinct personal image, to create an icon of the self. Rising Star is a fascinating look at the roots of this particular form of celebrity. Here Rhonda Garelick locates a prototype of the star personality in the dandies and aesthete literary figures of the nineteenth century, including Beau Brummell, Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Oscar Wilde, and explores their peculiarly charged relationship with women and performance

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Nature of contents

bibliography