Treatise on Elegant Living

by Honoré de Balzac

Honor? de Balzac's keystone text on dandyism

Honor? de Balzac's 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's Anatomy of Dandyism (1845) and Charles Baudelaire's "The Dandy" (in The Painter of Modern Life, 1863), and marking an important shift from the early dandyism of the British Regency to the intellectual and artistic dandyism of nineteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984115501
• ISBN13: 9780984115501
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Wakefield Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 7.0"