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

Title
Rising star : dandyism, gender, and performance in the fin de siècle / Rhonda K. Garelick.
Author
Garelick, Rhonda K., 1962-
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
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231 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
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.
  • When fin-de-siecle aesthetes turned their attention to the new, "feminized" spectacle of mass culture, Garelick argues, they found a disturbing female counterpart to their own highly staged personae. She examines the concept of the broadcasted self-image in literary works as well as in such unwritten cultural texts as the choreography and films of dancer Loie Fuller, the industrialized spectacles of European World Fairs, and contemporary cultural performances in fields ranging from entertainment to the academy. Recent dandy-like figures such as the artist formerly known as Prince, Madonna, Jacques Derrida, and Jackie O. all share a legacy provided by the encounter between "high" and early mass culture.
  • Garelick's analysis of this encounter covers a wide range of topics, from the gender complexity of the European male dandy and the mechanization of the female body to Orientalist performance, the origins of cinema, and the emergence of "crowd" theory and mass politics.
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  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.
Contents
The Treatises of Dandyism -- Balzac's Traite de la vie elegante -- Barbey's Du Dandysme et de George Brummell -- Baudelaire's Le Peintre de la vie moderne -- Idols and Effigies: Jean Lorrain's Une Femme par jour -- Mallarme: Crowds, Performance, and the Fashionable Woman -- Robotic Pleasures, Dance, and the Media Personality -- Electric Salome: The Mechanical Dances of Loie Fuller -- Camp Salome: Oscar Wilde's Circles of Desire.
Call Number
JFE 98-1737
ISBN
  • 0691012059 (cl : alk. paper)
  • 9780691012056 (cl : alk. paper)
  • 9780691048697 (pbk.)
  • 069104869X (pbk.)
LCCN
97021429
OCLC
36961112
Author
Garelick, Rhonda K., 1962-
Title
Rising star : dandyism, gender, and performance in the fin de siècle / Rhonda K. Garelick.
Imprint
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.
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Dandies in literature
Decadence (Literary movement) France
French literature 19th century History and criticism
French literature History and criticism 19th century
Geschichte 1860-1900
Sex role in literature
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JFE 98-1737
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