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Book SynopsisCelebrity 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. This book looks at the roots of this particular form of celebrity.
Trade Review"Garelick ... has fascinating things to tell us about a series of literary treatments of dandyism--by Balzac and Baudelaire ... [it contains] an intriguing section on L'Eve Future ... and a riveting account of Loie Fuller."--Simon Callow, The Observer "Original and indeed fascinating... Intelligently argued and elegantly written."--Choice "Rising Star is gracefully and clearly written, thoroughly researched, and copiously documented... By showing the affinities between nineteenth-century French culture and our own, Garelick sheds provocative new light on both."--Gail Finney, Modernism/Modernity
Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Ch. 1The Treatises of Dandyism14Balzac's Traite de la vie elegante14Barbey's Du Dandysme et de George Brummell19Baudelaire's Le Peintre de la vie moderne27Idols and Effigies: Jean Lorrain's Une Femme par jour40Ch. 2Mallarme: Crowds, Performance, and the Fashionable Woman47Ch. 3Robotic Pleasures, Dance, and the Media Personality78Ch. 4Electric Salome: The Mechanical Dances of Loie Fuller99Ch. 5Camp Salome: Oscar Wilde's Circles of Desire128Afterword154Notes169Bibliography213Index227
