Description:
Analyzing the characteristic focus on costume, consumption, and the well-turned phrase in readings of figures ranging from Wyndham Lewis, Djuna Barnes, and William Burroughs to Patricia Highsmith, Bret Easton Ellis, and Ben Lerner, Dandyism reveals the Victorian dandy's legacy across the twentieth century, providing a revisionist history of the relationship between Victorian aesthetics and twentieth-century literature.
Review Quotes:
Learned, lively, and original, this fascinating study traces surprising manifestations of dandyism throughout literary history.
--Jessica Feldman, University of Virginia, author of Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience