Dandyism Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present |
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| Author:
| Gutkin, Len |
| Series title: | Cultural Frames, Framing Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-4391-6 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2020 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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Analyzing the characteristic focus on costume, consumption, and the well-turned phrase in readings of figures ranging from Wyndham Lewis, Djuna Barnes, and William Burroughs to Patricia Highsmith, Bret Easton Ellis, and Ben Lerner, Dandyism reveals the Victorian dandy's legacy across the twentieth century, providing a revisionist history of the relationship between Victorian aesthetics and twentieth-century literature.
Analyzing the characteristic focus on costume, consumption, and the well-turned phrase in readings of figures ranging from Wyndham Lewis, Djuna Barnes, and William Burroughs to Patricia Highsmith, Bret Easton Ellis, and Ben Lerner, Dandyism reveals the Victorian dandy's legacy across the twentieth century, providing a revisionist history of the relationship between Victorian aesthetics and twentieth-century literature.