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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Type of Medium

unmediated

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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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