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The international story of the dandy, from Beau Brummell to Bowie and beyond.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: On or About 1818: Dandyism Enters the Public Sphere
- 2: Lacking the Strength of Samson: The Calicot in Restoration Paris
- 3: Making Middling Men Look Well: The Mystery of the Swell
- 4: The Age of the Gent, or: The Foppery of the Shopocracy
- 5: Part(y)ing Parisians: From the Second-Empire Gandin to the Third-Republic Gommeux
- 6: From White Dude to Black Dude and Back Again: American Dandyism and Racial Segregation
- 7: Worshipping at the Gaiety Shrine: The Masculine Martyrdom of the Masher
- 8: Self-Conscious Clowning: The Masher in Vienna and Stockholm
- 9: "Never Marry A Man with Baggy Trousers": Reformations of Dandyism in the Early Twentieth Century
- 10: "Anders als die Ander'n": The Transgender Dandy in Interwar Paris and Berlin
- 11: Zoots: A Not Quite Global History
- 12: Larking About After the War: From Teds to Mods
- 13: Elegance and Ambiance: Late Twentieth-Century Dandyism in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 14: Slipping Into Someone More Comfortable: The New Romantics and the Dusk of Dandy Subculture
- Coda: From Dandyism to Hipsterism?
About the author
Peter K. Andersson is a historian and writer, with a PhD in History from Lund University in Sweden. He has been a visiting scholar at the universities of London, Oxford, and Bologna, and has written extensively on Victorian cultural history, urban history, and popular culture. His previous books include
Streetlife in Late-Victorian London (2013) and
Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man (2023), and he has contributed to periodicals such as
The TLS, History Today, and
Journal of Victorian Culture.
Summary
The international story of the dandy, from Beau Brummell to Bowie and beyond.
