Political Dandyism in Literature and Art Genealogy of a Paradigm /

• Main Author: de Vugt, Geertjan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
• Subjects: European literature.; Comparative literature.; Literature-History and criticism.; European Literature.; Comparative Literature.; Literary History.

This book traces a genealogy of political dandyism in literature. Dandies abstain from worldly affairs, and politics in particular. As an enigmatic figure, or a being of great eccentricity, it was the dandy that haunted the literary and cultural imagination of the nineteenth century. In fact, the da...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Dandy-Insect
• 3. Tumulte
• 4. Twilights
• 5. Of Dandies Dying
• 6. L'après dandysme
• 7. Senses of Community
• 8. Conclusion.