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A Peculiar Man? The dandyism of George Moore
1. A PECULIAR MAN?
THE DANDYISM OF
GEORGE MOORE
5th International George Moore Conference
NUI Galway, Moore Hall, Mayo, Coole
Park, Galway: June 3-6 2011
Dr. Melanie Grundmann
16. NANCY CUNARD ON MOORE
„smartly dressed: a
top hat, a white or
grey waistcoat, a
pair of dove-
coloured gloves in
one hand“
17. „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.“
19. „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.“
21. „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.“
22. 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.“
23. „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
24. GEORGE MOORE AS A DANDY
ELOQUENCE & WIT
AMBIGUOUS SEXUALITY
AESTHETICISM
ESTRANGEMENT
OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
25. 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“
26. NANCY CUNARD ON MOORE
„whatever he told,
he told with style“
27. 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.“
28. GEORGE MOORE AS A DANDY
ELOQUENCE & WIT
AMBIGUOUS SEXUALITY
AESTHETICISM
ESTRANGEMENT
OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
30. 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.“
31. GEORGE MOORE AS A DANDY
ELOQUENCE & WIT
AMBIGUOUS SEXUALITY
AESTHETICISM
ESTRANGEMENT
OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
32. 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.“
33. GEORGE MOORE AS A DANDY
ELOQUENCE & WIT
AMBIGUOUS SEXUALITY
AESTHETICISM
ESTRANGEMENT
OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
34. 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.“
35. 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.“
36. ESTRANGEMENT
„But alas! the rising tide of
democracy, which spreads
„the snob is now the ark
everywhere and reduces
that floats triumphant over
everything to the same level,
the democratic wave; the
is daily carrying away these
faith of the old world
last champions of human
reposes in his breast, and he
pride, and submerging, in
shall proclaim it when the
the waters of oblivion, the
waters have subsided.“
last traces of these
remarkable myrmidons.“
37. 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.“
38. GEORGE MOORE AS A DANDY
ELOQUENCE & WIT
AMBIGUOUS SEXUALITY
AESTHETICISM
ESTRANGEMENT
OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
39. OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR
„It is, above all, the burning
desire to create a personal form
of originality, within the external
limits of social conventions.“
40. 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.“
41. 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.“
42. 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.“
