The dandy : a people's history of sartorial splendour /
"The historical figure of the dandy has commonly been described as an upper-class gentleman, often exemplified by well-known men such as Beau Brummell, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, and Max Beerbohm. But there is a broader history to be told about the dandy - one that incorporates unknown me...
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. On or about 1818: dandyism enters the public sphere
- 2. Lacking the strength of Samson: the Calicot in Restoration Paris
- 3. Making middling men look well: the mystery of the swell
- 4. The age of the gent, or: the foppery of the shopocracy
- 5. Part(y)ing Parisians: from the Second-Empire gandin to the Third-Republic gommeux
- 6. From white dude to black dude and back again: American dandyism and racial segregation
- 7. Worshipping at the gaiety shrine: the masculine martyrdom of the masher
- 8. Self-conscious clowning: the masher in Vienna and Stockholm
- 9. "Never marry a man with baggy trousers": reformations of dandyism in the early twentieth century
- 10. "Anders als die Ander'n": the transgender dandy in interwar Paris and Berlin
- 11. Zoots: a not quite global history
- 12. Larking about after the war: from teds to mods
- 13. Elegance and ambiance: late twentieth-century dandyism in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 14. Slipping into someone more comfortable: the New Romantics and the dusk of dandy subculture
- Coda. From dandyism to hipsterism?