Dandyism : Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present /

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"This work traces the aesthetic of Victorian "dandies" from works such as Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray through the work of later twentieth-century American and British authors, including Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, William S. Burroughs, and Djuna Barnes, as we...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gutkin, Len, 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sex role in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
English fiction.
Dandyism in literature.
American fiction.
Aestheticism (Literature)
Dandies in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Modernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Dandys dans la litterature.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the dandy in long modernism
  • pt. 1. Fine and dandy: Ernest Hemingway's androgynous connoisseurship
  • Raymond Chandler's dandified dick
  • pt. 2. Decadent dandies
  • William S. Burroughs's modernist genere decadence
  • Djuna Bares's cross-gendered conceits
  • pt. 3. Extremes and end-times
  • The psychopath dandy: a survey
  • Coda: the dandy and the hipster after the apocalypse.

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