Rising Star : : Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siècle / / Rhonda K. Garelick.

Celebrity personalities, who reign over much of our cultural landscape, owe their fame not to specific deeds but to the ability to project a distinct personal image, to create an icon of the self. Rising Star is a fascinating look at the roots of this particular form of celebrity. Here Rhonda Gareli...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1998
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (241 p.) :; 19 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE. THE TREATISES OF DANDYISM
  • CHAPTER TWO. MALLARMÉ: CROWDS, PERFORMANCE, AND THE FASHIONABLE WOMAN
  • CHAPTER THREE. ROBOTIC PLEASURES, DANCE, AND THE MEDIA PERSONALITY
  • CHAPTER FOUR. ELECTRIC SALOME: THE MECHANICAL DANCES OF LOIE FULLER
  • CHAPTER FIVE. CAMP SALOME: OSCAR WILDE'S CIRCLES OF DESIRE
  • AFTERWORD
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX