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Author:

Gutkin, Len, 1985- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

viii, 269 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Dandies in literature.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Sex role in literature.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Coda. The dandy and the hipster after the apocalypse. 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 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.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Cultural frames, framing culture

ISBN:

0813943906
9780813943909
0813943892
9780813943893

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1123241122

LCCN:

2019047802

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)