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Dandyism : forming fiction from modernism to the present / Len Gutkin.

By: Series: Cultural frames, framing culturePublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020Description: viii, 269 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780813943893
  • 0813943892
  • 9780813943909
  • 0813943906
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: DandyismDDC classification:
  • 820.9/353 23 G984
Contents:
Introduction. The dandy in long modernism -- Pt. 1. Macho dandies -- Fine and dandy: Ernest Hemingway's androgynous connoisseurship -- Raymond Chandler's dandified dick -- Pt. 2. Decadent dandies -- William S. Burroughs's modernist genre decadence -- Djuna Barnes's cross-gendered conceits -- Pt. 3. Extremes and end-times -- The psychopath dandy: a survey -- Coda. The dandy and the hipster after the apocalypse.
Summary: "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 well as in postmodern thrillers, providing a revisionist history of the relationship between Victorian aesthetics and twentieth-century literature"--
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-259) and index.

Introduction. The dandy in long modernism -- Pt. 1. Macho dandies -- Fine and dandy: Ernest Hemingway's androgynous connoisseurship -- Raymond Chandler's dandified dick -- Pt. 2. Decadent dandies -- William S. Burroughs's modernist genre decadence -- Djuna Barnes's cross-gendered conceits -- Pt. 3. Extremes and end-times -- The psychopath dandy: a survey -- Coda. The dandy and the hipster after the apocalypse.

"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 well as in postmodern thrillers, providing a revisionist history of the relationship between Victorian aesthetics and twentieth-century literature"--