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L’essai sur le dandysme est-il un essai dandy ? Du dandysme et de George Brummell de Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

  • Publication type: Article from a collective work
  • Collective work:
    Essai et essayisme en France au xixe siècle
  • Author: Kociubińska (Edyta)
  • Abstract: This article seeks to reveal the ambiguity of the Aurevillien essay through an analysis of the strange style of this half-scholarly, half-anecdotal work. Barbey replicates the bizarre nature of dandyism by enticing the reader into a consciously-constructed game : on the one hand, he poses as a historian, analysing dandyism as a historical phenomenon ; on the other, he acts as a moralist, seeking to prove that there is profundity in the dandy’s doctrine.
  • Pages: 111 to 123
  • Collection: Encounters, n° 86
  • Series: Nineteenth century studies, n° 23
  • CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
  • EAN: 9782812429576
  • ISBN: 978-2-8124-2957-6
  • ISSN: 2261-1851
  • DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-2957-6.p.0111
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 07-31-2014
  • Language: French