Peter K. Andersson is a historian and writer, with a PhD in History from Lund University in Sweden. He has been a visiting scholar at the universities of London, Oxford, and Bologna, and has written extensively on Victorian cultural history, urban history, and popular culture. His previous books include Streetlife in Late-Victorian London (2013) and Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man (2023), and he has contributed to periodicals such as The TLS, History Today, and Journal of Victorian Culture.
* Introduction
* 1: On or About 1818: Dandyism Enters the Public Sphere
* 2: Lacking the Strength of Samson: The Calicot in Restoration Paris
* 3: Making Middling Men Look Well: The Mystery of the Swell
* 4: The Age of the Gent, or: The Foppery of the Shopocracy
* 5: Part(y)ing Parisians: From the Second-Empire Gandin to the
Third-Republic Gommeux
* 6: From White Dude to Black Dude and Back Again: American Dandyism
and Racial Segregation
* 7: Worshipping at the Gaiety Shrine: The Masculine Martyrdom of the
Masher
* 8: Self-Conscious Clowning: The Masher in Vienna and Stockholm
* 9: "Never Marry A Man with Baggy Trousers": Reformations of Dandyism
in the Early Twentieth Century
* 10: "Anders als die Ander'n": The Transgender Dandy in Interwar Paris
and Berlin
* 11: Zoots: A Not Quite Global History
* 12: Larking About After the War: From Teds to Mods
* 13: Elegance and Ambiance: Late Twentieth-Century Dandyism in
Sub-Saharan Africa
* 14: Slipping Into Someone More Comfortable: The New Romantics and the
Dusk of Dandy Subculture
* Coda: From Dandyism to Hipsterism?
