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The Dandy on the City Stage: Social Roles, Social Spaces and Commodity Consumption
GUAN Bei-bei, XIE Jian
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2017.07.003
Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, China
Dandyism is a very important and significant social phenomenon in 19th century Europe, and also a means of aesthetic revolt in an urban environment. The paper focuses on how Charles Baudelaire presents his dandy’s rebellion, based on aestheticism, on the city stage. Only the city produces dandies and dandies cannot breathe without the city. On “stage”, Baudelaire played different dandy roles, such as the flâneur, the ragpicker, and man of letters. Walking the streets, the dandy is a member of the crowd but also isolated from it; his main duty is to observe the city and mass silently, and seek the flowers of evil.
Dandyism, city social roles, social spaces, commodity consumption
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