Dandyism Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present |
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| Author:
| Gutkin, Len |
| Series title: | Cultural Frames, Framing Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-4389-3 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2020 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $92.00 |
Book Description:
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Establishing the "dandy" as a kind of shorthand for a diverse range of traits and tendencies, including gentlemanliness, rebelliousness, androgyny, theatricality, and extravagance, Len Gutkin traces Victorian aesthetic precendents in the work of the modernist avant-garde, the noir novel, Beatnik experimentalism, and the postmodern thriller.
Establishing the "dandy" as a kind of shorthand for a diverse range of traits and tendencies, including gentlemanliness, rebelliousness, androgyny, theatricality, and extravagance, Len Gutkin traces Victorian aesthetic precendents in the work of the modernist avant-garde, the noir novel, Beatnik experimentalism, and the postmodern thriller.