Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (292 ungezählte Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781839984464
Serie:
Anthem studies in fashion, dress and visual cultures
Inhalt:
The book offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards of behaviour, bodily practices and conceptual approaches to dress.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One Fashioning the Dandy -- Apollos in Double-Breasted Coats -- Brummell the Innovator -- On Cravats -- Styling Interiors -- Chapter Two Literature and Legends -- Brummell: Constructing the Legend -- The Biographer's Gaze: Brummell in the Mirror -- The Poetics of Dandyism: Fashion and Fiction -- Aphorism as Dandy's Genre of Speech -- Chapter Three Charisma and Chameleonism -- Chameleonism -- The Charisma of Count d'Orsay -- Chapter Four Manners -- Rules of Behaviour -- Visual Games and the Optical Strategies -- Dandyism and the Disdain for Vulgarity: A History of Meanings -- The Fine Art of Scandal -- Be Insolent! -- Sugared Wigs and Luminous Rabbits: Practical Jokes in Dandyism -- Chapter Five The Body -- The Dandy's Body -- The Sporting Dandy -- Corporeality: Poses and Gestures -- Corporeality: Inscrutable Face -- The Quest for Cleanliness: Dandy's Hygiene -- Festina Lente: Slowness in Dandy Culture -- Chapter Six Oscar Wilde -- Oscar Wilde: The Dandy-Aesthete -- Dandyism after Oscar Wilde -- Chapter Seven Russian Dandyism -- Russian 'Petit Maître': Occupational Hazards -- 'Fashion's Loyal Devotee': Russian Dandies of the Nineteenth Century -- The Silver Age Masters of Elegance -- Dandyism after the Revolution (Pre-war Years) -- Orange Jackets and Pea Green Pants: The Fashion of Stilyagi in the Soviet Post-war Culture -- Chapter Eight Dandyism Revisited -- Three Periods of Nineteenth-Century European Dandyism -- Modern Dandies and Two Trends in the History of Dandyism -- The New Bespoke Movement -- The Sapeurs -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Name Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781839984440
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Vajnštejn, Olʹga, 1959 - Fashioning the dandy London, UK : Anthem Press, 2023 ISBN 9781839984440
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1839984449
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Dandyismus
;
Herrenmode
;
Lebensstil
;
Habitus
;
Geschichte 1800-1930
