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Dandyism : forming fiction from modernism to the present /
"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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Cultural frames, framing culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.