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South Atlantic Quarterly (1982) 81 (4): 455–461.
Published: 01 October 1982
...Peter W. Graham Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 A Dandy in Amber: The Life and Times of Scrope Berdmore Davies Peter W. Graham In our time treasure is a commodity to be discovered only by means of esoteric instruments electron microscopes, space probes, and the like. Brassbound...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (2-3): 599–628.
Published: 01 July 2003
...Nurdan Gürbilek 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Nurdan Gürbilek Dandies and Originals: Authenticity, Belatedness, and the Turkish Novel Let’s start with an impasse in our reading prac- tices. Criticism in Turkey—not only social...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1974) 73 (2): 173–183.
Published: 01 April 1974
... of the country s leading neurosurgeons, Dr. Walter Dandy, pronounced the illness an incurable miliary tuberculosis of the brain. This account of the death has added much ironic fuel to the Wolfe legends. Readers of Look Homeward, Angel recall the early death from tuberculosis of Eugene s favorite brother, Ben...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1945) 44 (3): 334.
Published: 01 July 1945
... mourns, and the smoking log Accompanies in falsetto the rheumy clock, Whilst in a sport full of filthy perfumes, Fatal heritage of a dropsical old woman, The dandy valet of the heart and the lady of pique Chat sinisterly of their defunct amours. F. A. Bridgers. Ancestor s Brocades: The Literary Debut...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1914) 13 (1): 19–27.
Published: 01 January 1914
... not the slightest bearing on the mean­ ing, and makes nonsense. Such are dandy fever for dengue (pronounced dongay) fever, poorhouse plaster for porous plas­ ter, steeple for staple, chicken for chicane in whist, cowcumber for cucumber, barnfire for bonfire, comic for comet, the Fashion Play for the Passion Play...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1945) 44 (3): 333–334.
Published: 01 July 1945
... Causent sinistrement de leurs amours defunts. The great bell mourns, and the smoking log Accompanies in falsetto the rheumy clock, Whilst in a sport full of filthy perfumes, Fatal heritage of a dropsical old woman, The dandy valet of the heart and the lady of pique Chat sinisterly of their defunct amours...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1945) 44 (3): 334–335.
Published: 01 July 1945
... de pique Causent sinistrement de leurs amours defunts. The great bell mourns, and the smoking log Accompanies in falsetto the rheumy clock, Whilst in a sport full of filthy perfumes, Fatal heritage of a dropsical old woman, The dandy valet of the heart and the lady of pique Chat sinisterly...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1931) 30 (2): 190–199.
Published: 01 April 1931
...-work shows, the doings of unsub­ stantial royalty, the wiggery of the law-courts, the perfection of the dandy s outside, the recurrent rocking-horse on which, spite of his sophistication, Mr. Beerbohm has evidently had in his time many a glorious ride. He descends to subterranean crypts to ponder...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1948) 47 (4): 594–595.
Published: 01 October 1948
..., a dark, handsome, German Jew, who was born in Breslau in 1825 and was killed in a duel over an affair with a woman in 1864. Lassalle was a dandy: a contemporary has recorded how he would spend an hour at a time in front of the mirror, adjusting his tie to the right degree of negligence. He...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (3): 599–613.
Published: 01 July 2007
... dress up together. George Catlin’s 1832 painting Wi-jun-jon, The Pigeon’s Egg Head (The Light), Going to and Returning from Washington, shows an Assiniboin chief on the left all dressed up like an Indian and on the right all dressed up like a primping dandy complete with fan. It is a dyad...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1938) 37 (2): 97–107.
Published: 01 April 1938
... practised by most dealers. Now at the end of the sixteenth century, London was infested with strutting, affected dandies, and these gallants adopted smoking as something especially devised for them. Their extravagances in this art, the elaborate smoking equipment they carried about with them...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1956) 55 (4): 463–472.
Published: 01 October 1956
... of young Mr. Disraeli, the ambitious dandy and romancer, now in London to conquer the heathen. His letters told of brilliant reunions, soirees, fetes, and water parties; of his Disraeli s Audience 467 long list of acquaintances counts, dukes, princes, politicians, men of letters, artists, dandies. She...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1949) 48 (4): 614–616.
Published: 01 October 1949
.... There were many points of contrast be­ tween the two men. Herndon was something of a dandy, a neat dresser, avid reader, and given to metaphysical thinking. He moved definitely toward abolitionism before the war; his favorite correspondents were men like Theodore Parker and Charles Sumner. President Lincoln...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1942) 41 (4): 437–440.
Published: 01 October 1942
... will revive the hoary scandal that Walt, as a bespatted New York dandy of the 1840 s at the very time he was writing Franklin Evans: or the Inebriate, dedicated to the friends of the temperance 440 The South Atlantic Quarterly cause throughout the United States had a palate tolerant of gin cocktails...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1907) 6 (1): 67–71.
Published: 01 January 1907
..., do-nothing boy­ hood; the early manhood dominated by a spirit of blissful vagrancy; by turns school teacher, printer, editor, would-be man of letters; in dress a curious blending of the dandy and the Bohemian; writing a story in behalf of the Temperance Refor­ mation in a questionable resort...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1991) 90 (4): 803–818.
Published: 01 October 1991
... is that we are seeing what Robert Ray labels a later manifesta­ tion of dandyism. Barthes writes: [I]n a given historical situation of pessimism and rejection it is the intellectual class as a whole which, if it does not become militant, is virtually a dandy. 34 The dandy, Baudelaire observed, appears...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1979) 78 (1): 84–106.
Published: 01 January 1979
... as Angelica in Sir Harry Wildair, Sir George Truman in Addison s The Drummer (1716), and others. The ruse allows Amanda to reappear as a mysterious woman of the night, Angelica as a ghost and a dandy, and Sir George as a conjurer, and not one is recognized by his or her spouse. There are also numerous...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1914) 13 (2): 156–173.
Published: 01 April 1914
...; so that I call him the modern boy. Or of Whitman: But what age of time ever yielded such a dandy as the founder of this school, Whitman himself ? The simpering beau who is the product of the tailor s wit is certainly absurd enough; but what difference is there between that and the other dandy-up...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1955) 54 (1): 75–81.
Published: 01 January 1955
... my dream; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light And with no language but a cry. (LIV, 17-20) And Auden finds a strange kinship between Tennyson, the provincial Englishman, and Baudelaire, the cosmopolitan satanic dandy of Tennyson s Dark Night 8i Paris...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1946) 45 (4): 504–510.
Published: 01 October 1946
... showed a decided preference, being at that time something of a dandy himself. Novels like Cruelle enigme, Un Crime d amour, and Andre Cornells are the result of the application of scientific psychology to the study of love and human conduct in a milieu of leisure and affluence. But even in these early...