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The Drama of the Impostor: Dandyism and Its Double

1994; University of Minnesota Press; Issue: 28 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1354509

1460-2458

Christopher Lane,

Cinema and Media Studies

Eccentricity is unbridled, wild and blind. It is the revolt of the individual against the established order, sometimes against nature: here we approach mania. Dandyism on the contrary, while still respecting the conventionalities, plays with them. While admitting their power, it suffers from and avenges itself upon them, and pleads them as an excuse against themselves; dominates and is dominated by them in turn-double and mutable character.