This study explores a series of dandy figures that emerged in France, Spain and Britain during the period of the French Revolution: the muscadins, jeunes gens and incroyables in France, the currutacos in Spain and the crops in England. It traces how these new types responded to …
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In Dandyism in the Age of Revolution, Elizabeth Amann shows that in France, England, and Spain, daring dress became a way of taking a stance toward the social and political upheaval of the period. France is the centerpiece of the story, not just because of the significance of th…
This study explores a series of dandy figures that emerged in France, Spain and Britain during the period of the French Revolution: the muscadins, jeunes gens and incroyables in France, the currutacos in Spain and the crops in England. It traces how these new types responded to …
"Alistair Carsington -- wounded Waterloo hero, third son of the Earl of Hargate, and a dismal judge of female character -- is commanded by his father to find a way to be self-supporting within the next six months (either by finding an occupation or winning an heiress) or risk im…
This work examines the pivotal role that style has played in the politics and aesthetics of African diasporic identity formation. It tells how the figure of the black dandy first emerged in the 18th-century England as an attempt to control the representation of Africans.
Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. It is populated by sartorial impresarios such as Julius Soubise, a freed sla…
Stylin' out -- Mungo Macaroni : the slavish swell -- Crimes of fashion : dressing the part from slavery to freedom -- W. E. B. du Bois's "different" diasporic race man -- "Passing fancies" : dandyism, harlem modernism, and the politics of visuality -- "You look beautiful like th…
Cultural and literary history of black dandyism from the 1700s to the 1960s.
"Clothes make the manand other intergendered subjectivitiesin this stimulating study of the social meaning of fashion in the black community. Barnard English professor Miller surveys the history of sartorial style and flamboyance among black dandies and the cultural responses, b…