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A PECULIAR MAN?THE DANDYISM OF
GEORGE MOORE
5th International George Moore ConferenceNUI Galway, Moore Hall, Mayo, Coole
Park, Galway: June 3-6 2011
Dr. Melanie Grundmann
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WHAT IS A DANDY?
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vanityegotism
nonconformity
sarcasm
wit
ambiguous sexuality
ennui
estrangement
aestheticism
impertinence
WHAT IS A DANDY?
dilettantism
oppositionalbehavior
fashionable appearance
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GEORGE MOORE AS A DANDY
ELOQUENCE & WIT
AMBIGUOUS SEXUALITY
AESTHETICISM
ESTRANGEMENT
OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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GEORGE MOORE AS A DANDY
J.-A. Barbey d‘Aurevilly: „Of Dandyism and Of George Brummell“ (1845)
Charles Baudelaire: „The dandy“ (1863)
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ÉCRIVAIN-DANDYS
Barbey d‘Aurevilly
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ÉCRIVAIN-DANDYS
CharlesBaudelaire
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ÉCRIVAIN-DANDYS
Robert deMontesquiou
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ÉCRIVAIN-DANDYS
EugèneSue
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ÉCRIVAIN-DANDYS
ThéophileGautier
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ÉCRIVAIN-DANDYS
OscarWilde
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ÉCRIVAIN-DANDYS
Stendhal
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GEORGE MOORE, A DANDY?
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MANET ON MOORE
„somewhat eccentric
appearance“
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SUSAN MITCHELL ON MOORE
„man of fashion“
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NANCY CUNARD ON MOORE
„smartly dressed: a top hat, a white or grey waistcoat, a
pair of dove-coloured gloves in
one hand“
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„quiet, well-cut if sometimes rather crumpled, darkish and of good
quality. Often, to be sure, he had a rich silk tie on, and sometimes a very high, very stiff white collar.
Above all, what a personality there was in those slow-moving, critical,
appraising hands, often in long, soft shirt-cuffs done up so tightly.“
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GEORGE BRYAN ,BEAU‘ BRUMMELL (1778-1840)
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„quiet, well-cut if sometimes rather crumpled, darkish and of good
quality. Often, to be sure, he had a rich silk tie on, and sometimes a
very high, very stiff white collar. Above all, what a
personality there was in those slow-moving, critical, appraising hands,
often in long, soft shirt-cuffs done up so tightly.“
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THE HIGH ART OF TYING A TIE
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„quiet, well-cut if sometimes rather crumpled, darkish and of good
quality. Often, to be sure, he had a rich silk tie on, and sometimes a very high, very stiff white collar.
Above all, what a personality there was in those slow-moving,
critical, appraising hands, often in long, soft shirt-cuffs done up so
tightly.“
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BAUDELAIRE ON DANDYISM
„Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to
believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in
clothes and material elegance. For the perfect
dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of
the aristocratic superiority of his mind.“
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„hours were spent at the tailors considering different patterns; at the hosies turning over scarves,
neckties and shirts of many descriptions, frilled and plain [...] to be ridiculous has always been
mon petite luxe.“George Moore
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GEORGE MOORE AS A DANDY
ELOQUENCE & WIT
AMBIGUOUS SEXUALITY
AESTHETICISM
ESTRANGEMENT
OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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NANCY CUNARD ON MOORE
„no one spoke at all like him, no one else‘s mind
worked like his in all its paradoxical,
individual Irish brilliance“
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NANCY CUNARD ON MOORE
„whatever he told, he told with style“
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ELOQUENCE & WIT
„if there were nobody to shock, our trade would come to an end.“
the dandy‘s doctrine is „the pleasure of causing surprise in others, and the proud satisfaction of
never showing any oneself.“
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GEORGE MOORE AS A DANDY
ELOQUENCE & WIT
AMBIGUOUS SEXUALITY
AESTHETICISM
ESTRANGEMENT
OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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AMBIGUOUS SEXUALITY
celibacy
“Woman is the opposite of the dandy“ artificial
spiritualsuicide
self-control
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AMBIGUOUS SEXUALITY
„(dandyism is) a kind of cult of the ego which can still survive
the pursuit of that form of happiness to be found in others, in woman for example; which
can even survive what are called illusions.“
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GEORGE MOORE AS A DANDY
ELOQUENCE & WIT
AMBIGUOUS SEXUALITY
AESTHETICISM
ESTRANGEMENT
OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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AESTHETICISM
„The work of the great artist is himself.“
Dandies „have no other status but that of cultivating the idea
of beauty in their own persons.“
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GEORGE MOORE AS A DANDY
ELOQUENCE & WIT
AMBIGUOUS SEXUALITY
AESTHETICISM
ESTRANGEMENT
OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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ESTRANGEMENT
„they all share the same characteristic of opposition and revolt; all are representatives of what is best in
human pride, of that need, which is too rare in the modern generation, to
combat and destroy triviality.“
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ESTRANGEMENT
Baudelaire‘s view on dandyism as „the idea of establishing a new kind of
aristocracy, all the more difficult to break down because established on the most
precious, the most indestructible faculties, on the divine gifts that neither work nor money
can give. Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.“
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ESTRANGEMENT
„the snob is now the ark that floats triumphant over the democratic wave; the
faith of the old world reposes in his breast, and he shall proclaim it when the
waters have subsided.“
„But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces
everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the
last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.“
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ESTRANGEMENT
„Here in France, dandies are becoming rarer and rarer, whereas amongst our neighbours in
England the state of society and the constitution [...] will, for a long time yet, leave
room for the heirs of Sheridan, Brummell and Byron, always assuming that men worthy
of them come forward.“
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GEORGE MOORE AS A DANDY
ELOQUENCE & WIT
AMBIGUOUS SEXUALITY
AESTHETICISM
ESTRANGEMENT
OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
„It is, above all, the burning desire to create a personal form
of originality, within the external limits of social conventions.“
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OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
„The point has already been made, but we will not tire of
repeating it: the thing that really makes a dandy is independence.“
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OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
„one of the consequences of Dandyism, one of its principal characteristics - or rather its character in more general
terms - is always to produce the unexpected. For this the mind that toils
under the yoke of logical rules is unprepared.“
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OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
„Dandyism plays games with the rules while continuing to respect them. It
suffers from their constricting effects and takes its revenge, tolerating them all the while. It invokes them even as it breaks free from them. It governs them and is
governed by them in its turn.“
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OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
„Nothing attracts me more than an
independent mind.“
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OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
„my thoughts do not move among
commonplaces.“
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OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
„I was born, I live, I shall die a peculiar man. I couldn‘t be
commonplace were I to try.“
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