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The Dandy as Ironic Figure SIMA GODFREY Some anecdotes concerning the dandy - Brummell, George (1778-1840): the model of the dandy, celebrated in Barbey d'Aurevilly's "Du ... and his coincidence with an ironic mode of discourse and literature, we begin with the social phenomenon of the Dandy in the 19th century. The Dandy is a man who, by ...

Victorian Literature and Culture Article contents. Abstract; References; Dandy. ... The article surveys the significance of the dandy as a central figure in nineteenth-century constructions of masculinity and social class. Type Keywords Redux. Information

Though the dandy has many anticipations in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature, even in the melancholy (perhaps affected) of Jacques in Shakespeare’s As You Like It (1600), and is anticipated in the Restoration “beau,” it becomes a subject in the English Regency (1810–1820), and the 10 years before that, and in post ...

The word dates back to the late 18th century/early 19th centuries. In the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, published in 1788, Francis Grose describes the dandy: Dandy. That’s the dandy; i.e. the ton, the clever thing. Dandy. grey Russet. A dirty brown. His coat’s dandy grey russet the colour of the Devil’s nutting bag. Dandy. Prat.

All dandies descend in some fundamental sense from Beau Brummell, and he was the model for many dandy characters in Regency and early-Victorian literature, including Thomas Henry Lister’s Granby ...

eyes” (1999: 208). The dandy needs attention for his existence since his whole nature is subjugated to the desire of being noticed, admired and envied. A dandy makes a spectacle of his life, a theatrical that bears little resemblance to reality. For Carlyle, the dandy is a fake, a preposterous but an enduring legacy of the aristocratic age ...

Secondly, to demonstrate that the Wildean dandy is profoundly afraid of life, and that his interest in form and aesthetic proportion rests on a principle of "evasion." Thirdly, to contend that the humour in this novel, and by extension also in Wilde's plays, is a symptom of the author's fascination with an archetypal "dandy."

The dandy was an elusive cultural icon which found expression in many literary works and attracted the attention of prominent cultural critics. ... Literature Compass, 2004. ... we see the transformation of the dandy into a responsible Victorian gentleman. As we find in the novel, although the gentleman did not engage himself professionally in ...

The "dandy," a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, reverberates in surprising corners of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture.Establishing this character as a kind of shorthand for a diverse range of traits and tendencies, including gentlemanliness, rebelliousness, androgyny, aristocratic pretension, theatricality ...

Moreover, the dandy often emphasizes that his writing is intended for a select few, a point that Nisard also raises in respect of decadent literature. Nisard’s Études provoked a heated debate about literary decadence at the same time as avant-garde writers adopted dandyism as a performative strategy.

The term “dandyism” refers to a British cultural movement of the late nineteenth century, within the Victorian era. It was a doctrine of elegance, finesse, and originality which was primarily concerned with language, sophisticated manners, and dress.

The royal dandy, afterward George IV, spent his wedding night dining with his friends, leaving the disconsolate Caroline of Brunswick to a lonely meditation in German on her future career as queen of England. As for the vanity of the dandy, it was vanity with a difference. He was concerned with the effect of his superior elegance upon others ...

In Gender on the Divide: the Dandy in Modernist Literature (1993), Jessica Feldman notes that, “Surely dandies are most powerfully typified by the fictional creations of Lord Byron and Oscar Wilde, chief among them Byron and Wilde themselves. . . . The dandies of literature are often created by artists who are also dandies.

The dandy, or fop, was a figure popularized by Wilde. In Wilde’s world, the dandy is a man who pays particular attention to his appearance, dress, and lifestyle, almost to the point of excess, while using his wit and charm to point out society’s hypocrisy and double standards. Algernon and Jack are examples of this figure.

A dandy (also known as a beau, or gallant) is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of Self. Historically, especially in late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain, a dandy, who was self-made, often strove to imitate an aristocratic style of life despite coming from a middle ...

Long-haired Bananya from Bananya, who spends most of his entire time grooming his mane every 2 hours.; Griffith from Berserk is an excellent example throughout the early volumes, being as much in his element at fancy balls as he is on the battlefield. The ladies in court and even the maidservants see him as more dashing and elegant than Midland's nobles, making said nobles intensely jealous.

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story. In "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona," the author frequently uses images of flight: Thomas flying off the roof, fireworks shooting through the air, wasps attacking Victor, the two characters flying to Phoenix, and the salmon flying above the water.

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The space is at once spare and densely appointed, with minimal furniture and little evidence of food preparation, but abundant books (covering art, architecture, fashion and centuries of ...