Dandyism : forming fiction from modernism to the present /

Gutkin, Len, 1985-

Dandyism : forming fiction from modernism to the present / Len Gutkin. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (viii, 269 pages). - Cultural Frames, Framing Culture .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: the dandy in long modernism -- PART1. Fine and dandy: Ernest Hemingway's androgynous connoisseurship -- Raymond Chandler's dandified dick -- PART2. Decadent dandies -- William S. Burroughs's modernist genere decadence -- Djuna Bares's cross-gendered conceits -- PART3. Extremes and end-times -- The psychopath dandy: a survey -- Coda: the dandy and the hipster after the apocalypse.

"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"--



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


Electronic Books.

PS374 / .D363 2020