Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present

by Len Gutkin

Book Overview

The "dandy," a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, reverberates in surprising corners of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. Establishing this character as a kind of shorthand for a diverse range of traits and tendencies, including gentlemanliness, rebelliousness, androgyny, aristocratic pretension, theatricality, and extravagance, Len Gutkin traces Victorian aesthetic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813943906
• ISBN13: 9780813943909
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary