British dandies : engendering scandal and fashioning a nation
Janes, Dominic2022
Book
"Dressy men as a type of celebrity have played a distinctive part in the cultural - and even in the political - life of Britain over several centuries. But unlike the twenty-first-century hipster, the dandies of the British past provoked intense degrees of fascination and horror in their homeland and played an important role in British society from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. This book - illustrated with contemporary prints, portraits and caricatures - explores that social and cultural history through a focus on the macaroni, the dandy and the aesthete. The first was noted for his flamboyance, the second for his austere perfectionism and the third for his sexual perversity. All were highly controversial in their time, pioneering new ways of displaying and performing gender, as demonstrated by the impact of key figures such as Lord Hervey, George 'Beau' Brummell and Oscar Wilde. This groundbreaking study tells the scandalous story of fashionable men and their clothes as a reflection of changing attitudes not only to style but also to gender and sexuality"--Publisher's description.
Main title:
British dandies : engendering scandal and fashioning a nation / Dominic Janes.
Author:
Janes, Dominic, author
Imprint:
Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2022.©2022
Collation:
vi, 182 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour portraits ; 25 cm
Notes:
Illustrations on edpapers.Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-176) and index.
Contents:
British dandiesDressing the sexes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesA Georgian taste for macaroniFine and dandy in the RegencyVictorians and the aesthetic poseFashion and scandal in the twentieth century.
ISBN:
9781851245598 (hbk)9781851245598 (hardback)
Dewey class:
391.10941391.1
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
742374
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Melbourne Library | -Art and Culture | ARTS 391.1 JANE | Available |