Gender on the Divide: The Dandy in Modernist LiteratureTaking issue with a substantial body of criticism predicated upon the differences between men and women, Feldman reinterprets modernism. She traces the influence of the dandy, as depicted by the 19th-century French writers Theophile Gautier, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, and Charles Baudelaire, on the work of the three 20th-century writers, Willa Cather, Wallace Stevens, and Vladimir Nabokov. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abram Gannibal aesthetic Alcibiades analogy androgyne Andromache Ántonia appears artist Aunt Georgiana Barbey Barbey's Baudelaire Baudelaire's beau Brummell Brummell's c'est Cather challenges chaos character Charles Baudelaire creates creation criticism culture cygne d'Albert dandy dandy-artist dandy's dandyism Delacroix elegance English essay Eugene Onegin Eugénie de Guérin exile feeling feminine feminization femme fiction figure French Gannibal Gannibal's Gautier gender identity imagination Kinbote l'air Lady Lowzen Lauzun Le cygne literary lives Madeleine Mademoiselle de Maupin male and female masculine mask metamorphosis mirror modern beauty mundus muliebris myth Nabokov never notion novel oeuvre Ovid Pale Fire paradox passion peintre poem poet poetry portrait pose Prince Otto Pushkin relation reveals romance Russian sensation sexual speaker Stevens Stevens's story superior tale Tatiana texture tion tout tradition of dandyism transformation translation Trébutien truth Wallace Stevens woman women words writes