Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle Book

Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle, 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 t, Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle

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Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle
Written by author Rhonda K. Garelick
Published by Princeton University Press, November 1999
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 t
"A wonderfully written book that joins extensive and solid research with imaginative interpretation. Rhonda Garelick makes highly intelligent use of contemporary cultural critique, materials on queer performance, commodity merchandising, and interpretive

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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

Title: Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle

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Publication Date: November 1999

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Heigh : 8.980 cm (3.54 inches)

Depth: 0.730 cm (0.29 inches)

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An excellent study of the fin de siecle dandy, focusing largely on the decadent dandy and his relationship to the creation of female celebrity.

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	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