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Hiya Sasha
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I noticed this at the end of the entry: <!-- "Dandyism's core message is an expression of anti-essentialism" - ambiguous class, gender, sexuality. "dandyish predilection for surface over depth"

"From the beginning the dandy was recognised as a non-aristocratic man who gained access to upper class circles through artifice, arrogance and a meticulous attention to fashion and manners" In Victorian England, "dandyism came to connote a suspicious effeminacy" Oscar Wilde, "apologist for aristocracy ... cultural disintegration" "dissipated foppish gentlemen unable to secure a family line"

"A working definition of dandyism: an elaborate public relation scheme through which the structures and conventions of aristocracy can be manipulated to obscure suspect sexual and racial identities" - unmasking means exile

Tom Connolly, Anglo-Irish MP, held up Robert E Lee as a gentlemanly masculine ideal

Albert Camus, The Rebel "The dandy is, by occupation, always in opposition. He can only exist in defiance"

"Heritage is a Brideshead complex between the past and post war modernity... performance of cultural heritage exudes dandyesque ambivalence" -->

did you want it to remain hidden, or adding to the text?

GB

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I was surprised to learn about John Steed being a dandy, I remember watching the original series (my parents loved it, I was very young) and I thought of Steed as a "posh" man. I always thought his pairing with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel was TV gold. If I were to choose a TV dandy of that time it would have been Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who, he was aloof too,

Thanks GB

Ah! They were my notes from researching the Entry, so they can be deleted from the Edited version

Yes, John Steed is a bit of an interesting case - I do read the programme as indicating that he is not what he seems, but is good at pretending to be whatever he needs to be to fit in, so he is not actually aristocratic (and <BB< suggested him as an example, so perhaps there is something about Steed's background from the earlier series that confirms that).

Yes - can't beat Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg as a team TV Gold indeed

Researching notes deleted, and the entry has been returned to Eds for final polish

Thanks for writing it, it was very interesting


GB

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"No, I am not remotely dandy more like a
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