Title Rising star : dandyism, gender, and performance in the fin de siècle / Rhonda K. Garelick

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages) Summary 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 Analysis Dandies in literature Decadence (Literary movement) France French literature 19th century History and criticism French literature History and criticism 19th century Geschichte 1860-1900 Sex role in literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Dandies in literature. Sex role in literature. Decadence (Literary movement) -- France Sex role in literature. French literature. Decadence (Literary movement) Dandies in literature. France. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021694943 ISBN 9780691223926 0691223920

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