كانت شخصية ‘الداندي’ أيقونة ثقافية وجدت تعبيراً لها في العديد من الأعمال
الأدبية و اجتذبت اهتمام نقاد ثقافيين بارزين. و كان الافتراض العام و غير المتبصر أن
‘الداندي’ كان مجرد رجل يهتم باللباس و غيره من المسائل المتعلقة بالمظهر. غير أن الدراسة المتأنية لشخصية ‘الداندي’ تُظهر أنه كان أكثر تعقيداً و عمقاً مما يبدو في هذا الافتراض. تسّلط هذه الورقة الضوء على النقاش النظري الذي ساد القرن التاسع عشر حول شخصية ‘الداندي’ من خلال أعمال تشارلز بودلير و توماس كارلايل، و خصوصاً في كتاب كارلايل "سارتور ريزارتوس"، و تعكف، من ثم، على دراسة الكيفية التي قُدمت بها هذه الشخصية في روايتي تشارلز ديكنز، "بليك هاوس" و "هارد تايمز"، و رواية إدوادر بولور – ليتون، "بلهام".
The dandy was an elusive cultural icon which found expression
in many literary works and attracted the attention of prominent
cultural critics. The general undiscerning assumption was that the
dandy was merely a man interested in clothes and matters of style.
A more discriminating examination of the dandy figure reveals,
however, that he was much more sophisticated than this assumption
makes him to be. This paper examines the nineteenth-century
theoretical debate about the dandy in the works of Charles
Baudelaire and Thomas Carlyle, particularly in Carlyle’s book
Sartor Resartus and then proceeds to study the presentation of the
dandy figure in two novels by Charles Dickens, Hard Times and
Bleak House, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Pelham.
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