The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction: Aristocratic Drag

Ellen Crowell

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2007

The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction

Aristocratic Drag

Ellen Crowell

In the series Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748631018

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This book identifies and interprets the longstanding ideological and aesthetic dialogue between the literary imaginations of Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South.

It offers a rich comparative examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and American Southern plantation literatures and their respective representations of race and nation, gender and sexuality, region and landscape, and the gothic imagination. Pairing major writers from both traditions, including Maria Edgeworth, William Faulkner, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Anne Porter and Elizabeth Bowen, the book shows how this transatlantic dialogue coalesced around questions of power, supremacy, and gentility: writers in Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Southern literary traditions recognized and spoke to each other through the discourse of aristocracy.

As the book demonstrates, from the early nineteenth-century onwards, Irish and Anglo-Southern writers conducted a sustained exploration into constructions of aristocracy through the figure of the dissipated, deviant gentleman (or lady): the dandy. By augmenting literary analysis with a variety of historical, biographical, archival and visual materials, including nineteenth-century trade cards, original letters, and twentieth-century photographic portraits, the book offers readers a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary illumination of transatlantic modernism.

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CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
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Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION Sham Grandeurs, Sham Chivalries: Architectures of Aristocracy in Ireland and the American South Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1 Oaks, Serpents and Dandies: Pseudoaristocracy in Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent and John Pendleton Kennedy’s Swallow Barn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
CHAPTER 2 The Picture of Charles Bon: Oscar Wilde’s Trip through Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
CHAPTER 3 Ferocious Beauty: Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Anne Porter and the Modernist Female Dandy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
EPILOGUE The Dandy Unmasked: Emma Donoghue’s ‘words for Things’ and Jim Grimsley’s Dream Boy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
WORKS CITED AND CONSULTED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Illustrations
- Other: 7 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: November 19, 2007
ISBN: 9780748631018