...E. S. Burt Copyright © 2005 The Trustees of Columbia University 2005 E. S. Burt A CADAVER IN CLOTHES: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE DANDY IN BAUDELAIRE "Le Dandy doit vivre et dormir devant un miroir." Baudelaire Baudelaire's work is far from self-evidently autobiographical. Les Fleurs du mal...

... decadence to corporality. As a result, her analysis of the assimilation of nineteenth-century medical discourses into French and English fin-de-siecle literature principally focuses on the reappearance of the dandy in decadent literature. Klee contrasts the works of the two most outstanding authors...

... homosexualismo el Eros del dandy" (24), no obstante, cabe anadir, si es el dandysmo en algunos casos uno de los rasgos que aquel adopta para insinuarse. Los ejemplos de esta relaci6n que la historia ofrece y Villena estudia son numerosos si reparamos en figuras tan celebres como Lord Byron y Oscar Wilde en...

... to be little more than a slightly mad and amusing person. The term was of course imported from England around 1830, along with the fad of the dandy and all things English. In France, originalite and excentricite were used as synonyms, as the Grand Larousse indicates. As late as 1873, Littre attributes...

... on the topic. Michela Marzano and Alain Milon offer a provocative reading of Wilde's Portrait of Dorian Gray in which the faux dandy Gray is opposed to the real dandy Lord Henry, the latter serving to 'herolse[r] Ie present' and to present art not as a means of combatting the passage of time, but rather...

... by adopting the term "dandy" (Lezioni I, 430) to portray a native of the Fiji Islands whose face is completely covered with ostentatious decorations. Mantegazza here associates the indigenous tattoo not simply with the generic realm of art, but more subtly with its most aestheticizing, self-referential...

...: Autobiography and the Dandy in Baude- laire," 19-39 Didier, Beatrice, "FamilIes de musiciens," 421-28 Duffy, Jean H., "Illness, Ritual and Liminality in the Post-Nouveau Roman," 207-31 Frappier-Mazur, Lucienne, "Le Monde du theatre et Ie reve communautaire dans les romans de George Sand," 409-20 Helgeson, James...

..., [Baudelaire] masque son gouffre : il est d’abord dandy par peur de soi [. . .]. Notons que le dandysme, par sa gratuité, par la libre position de valeurs et d’obligations, s’apparente au choix d’une Morale. Il semble que, sur ce plan, Baudelaire ait donné satisfaction à cette transcendance qu’il a découverte...

..., a group of dandies recognizes The Torpedo on the arm of Lucien. Comparing Esther to famous courtesans of the past, the worldly young men see in her the crowning glory of their mediocre age: "Maintenant, en France ou c'est aqui tronera, certes, il y a un trane vacant! A nous tous, nous pouvions faire une...

... Adam, Boyerd'Agen and Hippolyte Buffenoir. See the chapter entitled "Vne Campagne electorale rocambalesque" in Noel Richard's Le Mouvement decadent: dandys, esthetes et quintessents (Paris: Nizet, 1968), 229-37. 5. The timing of the publication is confirmed in a letter of the same date from Rachilde...

... mercure ! » (p. 101), qu’il dit élégamment à Jeanne : « Ta chatte sent le linge sale de ma mère » (p. 103), qu’ il est un « olibrius toxicomane » (p. 123), le « premier punk sur terre ! » (p. 155), qu’il « n’est pas le dernier pour la déconne ! » (p. 172), un « monstre dandy » au bordel, « client vraiment...

... Seventeenth Century Literature, volume 6 (1976-77), et Alain Montandon ed., L'Honnete Homme et Ie dandy, Tiibingen, Gunter Narr Verlag, 1993. Et, en langue anglaise, Domna C. Stanton, The Aristocrat as Art: A Study of the Honnete Homme and the Dandy in Seventeenth-and Nineteenth-Century French Literature, New...

... l'interInediaire de certaines revues symparhisantes telle que la Ret'ue Blanche, a la cause anarchiste. Leroy enler des reserves qui ont deja ere exprinlees sur la validite de cet engouenlent au certains critiques ne voient que poses de dandy. La figure d'un Peguy nli-anarchiste, llli-socialiste, est de nouveau...

... to the multiplicity of human motives, Balzac also shows how erotic attraction can be the motor of the characters’ actions, independently of social ambition. Brooks quotes the unforgettable novella The Girl with the Golden Eyes , in which Henri de Marsay, a young dandy, has an adventure with the sublimely beautiful...

... would do, and as did the father of the less privileged but equally irresponsible and headstrong Mathieu in Sue’s short story “Le Parisien en mer”). When Eugène returned, he came into his inheritance and was able to resume a profligate, worldly life, styling himself as a dandy who loved pleasure and play...

..., for instance, the case of prostituted Duchesse of Sierra-L­ eone who turns the ­tables on her client, the character Robert de Tressignies, in La Vengeance d une femme, a situation that can, perhaps, be construed as a symbolic castration of the smug, dismissive dandy, though the attribution...

... Marseillaise. [ ] Le peuple s'est cotise pour offrir un bouquet a mademoiselle Rachel. Ala fin de La Marseillaise, un jeune ouvrier aest monte sur la scene, et, lui presentant des fleurs (les dandies les jetaient la figure des actrices), il l'a priee, au nom du peuple, de vouloir bien recommencer Ie dernier...

... of the word, declares la grisette "un produit parisien" II-she is on display behind a counter, her main purpose to attract the attentions of dandies, bourgeois, students, and artists alike. The three vignettes offer similar visual clues, such as the decolette, the open book, which underscore the message...

... dose turned out to be too weak. As a trained physician he must have known this. Consequently, one wonders if the poet's ultimate goal was not the fashionable renown of a suicidal dandy, like that of Rigaut. The first issue of another avant-garde review, Le Disque vert, was almost entirely devoted...

... général, les titres courants et les numéros de pages, une élégante couleur verte : vert dandy ? Y compris, aux pages I-CLXV, pour la longue « Introduction » de Sartre. Un fragment en avait paru sous le titre « Un Collège spirituel », dans Confluences – la revue de la Résistance intellectuelle lyonnaise...