Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin De Siecle: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Si�cle - Rilegato

Garelick, Rhonda K.

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9780691012056: Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin De Siecle: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Si�cle

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ISBN 10: 0691012059 ISBN 13: 9780691012056

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1998

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Celebrity personalities, who reign over much of our cultural landscape, owe their fame not to specific deeds but to the ability to project a distinct personal image, to create an icon of the self.Rising Star is a fascinating look at the roots of this particular form of celebrity. Here Rhonda Garelick locates a prototype of the star personality in the dandies and aesthete literary figures of the nineteenth century, including Beau Brummell, Baudelaire, Mallarm�, and Oscar Wilde, and explores their peculiarly charged relationship with women and performance.

When fin-de-si�cle aesthetes turned their attention to the new, "feminized" spectacle of mass culture, Garelick argues, they found a disturbing female counterpart to their own highly staged personae. She examines the concept of the broadcasted self-image in literary works as well as in such unwritten cultural texts as the choreography and films of dancer Loie Fuller, the industrialized spectacles of European World Fairs, and the cultural performances taking place today in fields ranging from entertainment to the academy. Recent dandy-like figures such as the artist formerly known as Prince, Madonna, Jacques Derrida, and Jackie O. all share a legacy provided by the encounter between "high" and early mass culture. Garelick's analysis of this encounter covers a wide range of topics, from the gender complexity of the European male dandy and the mechanization of the female body to Orientalist performance, the origins of cinema, and the emergence of "crowd" theory and mass politics.

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"Garelick ... has fascinating things to tell us about a series of literary treatments of dandyism--by Balzac and Baudelaire ... [it contains] an intriguing section on L'Eve Future ... and a riveting account of Loie Fuller."--Simon Callow, The Observer

"Original and indeed fascinating.... Intelligently argued and elegantly written."--Choice

"Rising Star is gracefully and clearly written, thoroughly researched, and copiously documented. . . . By showing the affinities between nineteenth-century French culture and our own, Garelick sheds provocative new light on both."--Gail Finney, Modernism/Modernity

Contenuti:

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
Ch. 1	The Treatises of Dandyism	14
	Balzac's Traite de la vie elegante	14
	Barbey's Du Dandysme et de George Brummell	19
	Baudelaire's Le Peintre de la vie moderne	27
	Idols and Effigies: Jean Lorrain's Une Femme par jour	40
Ch. 2	Mallarme: Crowds, Performance, and the Fashionable Woman	47
Ch. 3	Robotic Pleasures, Dance, and the Media Personality	78
Ch. 4	Electric Salome: The Mechanical Dances of Loie Fuller	99
Ch. 5	Camp Salome: Oscar Wilde's Circles of Desire	128
	Afterword	154
	Notes	169
	Bibliography	213
	Index	227