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British Dandies - Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation (Hardcover)
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British Dandies - Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation (Hardcover)
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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.
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