Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siècle

by Rhonda K. Garelick

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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,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691012059

ISBN13:9780691012056

Release Date:December 1997

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 7.8" x 10.0"

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Arts, Music & Photography Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Performing Arts

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