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Establishing the “dandy” as a kind of shorthand for a diverse range of traits and tendencies, including gentlemanliness, rebelliousness, androgyny, theatricality, and extravagance, Len Gutkin traces Victorian aesthetic precendents in the work of the modernist avant-garde, the noir novel, Beatnik experimentalism, and the postmodern thriller.

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      Publisher: MP-VIR Uni of Virginia
      Publication Date: 1/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813943909, 978-0813943909
      ISBN10: 0813943906

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      Book Synopsis
      Establishing the “dandy” as a kind of shorthand for a diverse range of traits and tendencies, including gentlemanliness, rebelliousness, androgyny, theatricality, and extravagance, Len Gutkin traces Victorian aesthetic precendents in the work of the modernist avant-garde, the noir novel, Beatnik experimentalism, and the postmodern thriller.

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