Acceso usuarios
Murcia, España
Este trabajo estudia la figura del dandi como personaje literario y figura de moda del siglo XIX. De procedencia inglesa, el dandi era un prototipo urbano que cultivaba la belleza. Pero, ¿era un dandi o un petimetre a la inglesa? Si este último era el joven del siglo XVIII que seguía las modas francesas, ¿quién era el dandi? Con el fin de responder a estas sencillas preguntas, se propone definir su identidad y su marco temporal para determinar si se trataba de un arquetipo o de un estereotipo social. Partiendo de una revisión etimológica, se tratará de analizar estas figuras y sus aspectos socioculturales a través de su imagen literaria y vestimentaria con el propósito de comprender si el dandy era un petimetre.
This work studies the figure of the dandy as a literary character and a fashionable figure of the 19th century. With English origin, the dandy was an urban prototype who cultivated beauty. But was he a dandy or a fop? If the latter character was an eighteenth-century youth who followed french fashions, who was the dandy? In order to answer these simple questions, we propose to define their identity and their temporary framework to determine if it was an archetype or a social stereotype. Based on an etymological revision, we will try to review these figures and their sociocultural aspects, through their literary and vestimentary image, with the purpose of understanding if the dandy was a fop.
