Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siècle

by Rhonda K. Garelick

Book Overview

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.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691012059
• ISBN13: 9780691012056
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.8" x 10.0"