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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.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Description
- 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.
- Subjects
- French literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
- Dandys dans la littérature
- Littérature française > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Fuller, Loie
- Dandyismus
- Fin de siècle
- Geschlechterrolle
- Decadence (Literary movement) > France
- Geschichte > 1860-1900
- Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
- Sex role in literature
- Dandies in literature
- Mallarmé, Stéphane
- Lorrain, Jean
- Décadentisme > France
- French literature > History and criticism > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Dandies in literatureDecadence (Literary movement) FranceFrench literature 19th century History and criticismFrench literature History and criticism 19th centuryGeschichte 1860-1900Sex role in literature
- Research Call Number
- JFE 98-1737