The Dandies of the 1920's have long captured the romantic and artisitc imagination, in this academic essay I explore the function of the Dandy to an understanding of the decadent literature of the fin-de-siècle period.
The fin-de-siècle period was one in which
Dandyism could flourish. Jules Barbey D’Aurevilly, a writer who was influential
on Decadent artists, and one of the early Dandy figures regarded
‘Dandyism as a complete theory of life which springs from the unending struggle
betw...
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