{"product_id":"the-dandy-peacock-or-enigma","title":"The Dandy: Peacock or Enigma?","description":"\u003cp\u003eA look at the phenomenon of the dandy from Regency England to the contemporary Congolese Sapeurs  with stops at Wodehouse  Wilde  Grant  and more The dandy is not just an elaborately or even well-dressed man  nor is he an exclusively English phenomenon. He is something far more universal and intriguing  and this study explores his cultural significance. It starts with Beau Brummell  acknowledged as the very first dandy  a man whose ancestors had been servants  yet who invented a new paradigm of courtesy  wit  independence  and elegance to lord over the aristocrats of England. Brummell died in exile  forgotten and impoverishedthe best dandies often die in debt. But his image lived on  to haunt and inspire generations around the world  from the boulevards of Paris and St. Petersburg in the 1830s to the studios of Hollywood a century later. Byron  Disraeli  Bulwer  Pushkin  Chopin  Delacroix  Balzac  Baudelaire  Wilde  Proust  Boni de Castellane  Hugo von Hofmannstahl  Beerbohm  Nol Coward  Cary Grant  Fred Astaire  Vladimir Nabokov  Ortega y Gassett  Mikhael Bulgakov  Evelyn Waugh  Scott Fitzgerald  Tom Wolfe  Nick Foulkesall were bedazzled by the image of the dandy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946825347125,"sku":"ByrdShop_1903071305","price":63.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781903071304.jpg?v=1769968076","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-dandy-peacock-or-enigma","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}