The Dandy and the Herald: Manners, Mind and Morals from Brummell to Durrell

264 Pages·1988·60.435 MB·English

by  Richard Pine (auth.)

THE DANDY AND THE HERALD
By the same author
OSCAR WILDE
THE DUBLIN GATE THEATRE 1928-1978
THE DIVINER: THE ART OF BRIAN FRIEL (forthcoming)
The Dandy and the
Herald
Manners, Mind and Morals from
Brummell to Durrell
Richard Pine
M
MACMILLAN
PRESS
© Richard Pine 1988
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1988 978-0-333-39369-7
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Pine, Richard
The dandy and the herald: manners, mind
and morals from Brummell to Durrell.
1. Manners and customs--History-19th
century 2. Manners and customs--History
-20th century
I. Title
302 GT146
ISBN 978-1-349-08055-7 ISBN 978-1-349-08053-3 (eBook)
DOl 10.1007/978-1-349-08053-3
IN MEMORIAM
Leslie Gilbert Pine
Father and Friend
Born 22 December 1907
Died 15 May 1987

Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Paris 1937-38 1
1 The Dandy and the Herald 11
I Introduction: Heraldry 11
II The Dandy 14
III The Classic Literature of Dandyism 16
IV Modern Commentaries 25
V The Heraldic Dandy and the Modern World 35
2 The English Renaissance: Art and Politics 1840--95 39
I Introduction 39
II The Mediaeval Character of the Victorian Era 43
III Aesthetics and Society 51
IV Art and Politics 58
V Oscar Wilde 68
VI Towards Democracy 75
3 Vortex: 1895-1920 83
I Le theatre de la merde 83
II A Necessary War 94
III The Herald as Enemy 98
IV 'The age demanded ...' 113
4 The Children of the Waste Land: 1920--30 124
I The Handful of Dust 124
II If . . . 129
III Brief Lives 140
IV At the Hotel Byzantine 156
5 The Winter of Artifice: 1930--40 166
I The Frozen Sea 166
II The Axe 170
III China 173
IV Hotel Chaotica 186
V The Heraldic Universe 196
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6 Into the Inner Landscape 209
Notes and References 224
Index 248
Acknowledgements
Extracts from The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell are reprinted by
permission of Faber & Faber Ltd, London, and E. P. Dutton, New
York.
Extracts from Lawrence Durrell's letter(s) to the author are reprinted
with permission of Curtis Brown on behalf of Lawrence Durrell ©
Lawrence Durrell1984.
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