{"product_id":"rising-star-dandyism-gender-and-performance-in-the-fin-de-si232cle-9780691048697","title":"Rising Star  Dandyism Gender and Performance in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCelebrity 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403701231959,"sku":"9780691048697","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691048697.jpg?v=1730484289","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rising-star-dandyism-gender-and-performance-in-the-fin-de-si232cle-9780691048697","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}