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Deconstructing Gautier's literary dandyism
2005The purpose of this paper is to examine how the text of Théophile Gautier’s Mademoiselle de Maupin disproves the philosophy of the dandiacal artform called, “l’art pour l’art,” presented within the preface to the novel. To elucidate the characteristics inherent to dandyism, I will first introduce the history of the European dandy, and then I will ...
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2002
For the nineteenth century, Matthew Arnold’s versions of Keats have particular importance. Far more than Tennyson’s, Arnold’s positions on Keats — stated and restated in his criticism and demonstrated in his poetry — are public stances. They take part in the discussions of the century, but change over time. Unlike Tennyson, Arnold seems to work through
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For the nineteenth century, Matthew Arnold’s versions of Keats have particular importance. Far more than Tennyson’s, Arnold’s positions on Keats — stated and restated in his criticism and demonstrated in his poetry — are public stances. They take part in the discussions of the century, but change over time. Unlike Tennyson, Arnold seems to work through
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The aesthetics of challenge: Mario Perniola and Dandyism
2021This thesis compares the work of the Italian philosopher and writer Mario Perniola and the phenomenon of dandyism. Specifically, it focuses on Perniola’s aesthetic and philosophical thought in order to develop and explore its affinity with three exemplar dandies, namely George Bryan Brummell (1778-1840), Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), and Oscar Wilde (
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Dandyism as Monumental-Political ethos: Van Deyssel and the Walking Utopia
Dutch Crossing, 2013AbstractDandyism is seldom studied for its political dimension. Often histories of dandies represent these idiosyncratic figures as being characterized by a typical l’art pour l’art attitude. In the literary history of the Low Countries, sharp tongued author Lodewijk van Deyssel has often been discussed as representing precisely this aspect of dandyism.
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2018
In taking Lovecraft’s biography as a starting point to an analysis of his notion of ideal masculinity, Ralickas offers a seminal analysis of a critical aspect of the abjection of self that undercuts any form of idealism in his fiction: the clean and proper body of the gentleman writer.
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In taking Lovecraft’s biography as a starting point to an analysis of his notion of ideal masculinity, Ralickas offers a seminal analysis of a critical aspect of the abjection of self that undercuts any form of idealism in his fiction: the clean and proper body of the gentleman writer.
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Dandyism and Masculinity in Art Deco Hollywood
Journal of Popular Film and Television, 2005A dandified hero emerged in Hollywood during the late 1920s and 1930s. Contrary to most representations of aesthetes in American popular culture, this version was a masculine ideal in the highly designed universe of popular Art Deco movies. His "classlessness," coupled with his imperatives of leisure and consumption, made him a timely hero in ...
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Dandies, Dandyism, and the Uses of Style
2007An iconic figure whose evolving image reflects the uses of style as an active component of cultural change since the early nineteenth century, the dandy has come to be understood in terms of the rhetoric of performance, the language of irony, the semiotics of style.
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From Dandyism to Metrosexuality Between Context and Content
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015The article briefly examines the phenomenon of Dandyism from multiple perspectives: historical, social, cultural and sexual, identifying the main values of aesthetic autonomy and individual personality in the 19th century in relation to the phenomenon of Metrosexualism as a consequence of a post-industrial, capitalist culture.
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