Rising star : dandyism, gender, and performance in the fin de siècle
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
Print Book, English, ©1998
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780691012056, 9780691048697, 0691012059, 069104869X
36961112
List of Illustrations Ch. 1 The Treatises of Dandyism Balzac's Traite de la vie elegante Barbey's Du Dandysme et de George Brummell Baudelaire's Le Peintre de la vie moderne Idols and Effigies: Jean Lorrain's Une Femme par jour Ch. 2 Mallarme: Crowds, Performance, and the Fashionable Woman Ch. 3 Robotic Pleasures, Dance, and the Media Personality Ch. 4 Electric Salome: The Mechanical Dances of Loie Fuller Ch. 5 Camp Salome: Oscar Wilde's Circles of Desire Afterword Notes Bibliography Index