"This work traces the aesthetic of Victorian "dandies" from works such as Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray through the work of later twentieth-century American and British authors, including Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, William S. Burroughs, and Djuna Barnes, as w…
The "dandy," a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and Proust's 'Recherche', reverberates in surprising corners of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. Establishing this character as a kind of shortha…
"This work traces the aesthetic of Victorian "dandies" from works such as Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray through the work of later twentieth-century American and British authors, including Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, William S. Burroughs, and Djuna Barnes, as w…