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Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siècle
Rhonda K. Garelick
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Description for Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siècle
Paperback. 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. This book looks at the roots of this particular form of celebrity. Num Pages: 248 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
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, Mallarme, and Oscar Wilde, and explores their peculiarly charged relationship with women and performance. When fin-de-siecle aesthetes turned their attention to the new, "feminized" spectacle of ... Read more
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, Mallarme, and Oscar Wilde, and explores their peculiarly charged relationship with women and performance. When fin-de-siecle aesthetes turned their attention to the new, "feminized" spectacle of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press New Jersey
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691048697
SKU
V9780691048697
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About Rhonda K. Garelick
Rhonda K. Garelick is Assistant Professor of French at Connecticut College. She has written on European literature, mass culture, female performance, and modern dance. She is currently writing a book on the dancer Loie Fuller.
Reviews for Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siècle
"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... ... Read more
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... ... Read more