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- Title
Twenty-First-Century Victorian Dandy: What Metrosexuality and the Heterosexual Matrix Reveal about Victorian Men.
- Authors
KAYE, JEREMY
- Abstract
The article presents an examination of the cable television program "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" as an example of a modern day revision of the Victorian Marriage Plot found in the novels of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. It is noted that the homosocial interactions on display during the program are often subsumed by the reemergence of heterosexual marriage by the end of the show. It is argued that "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" bridges the gap between the homosocial and the homosexual; allowing heterosexual-identified men to engage in homosocial/homoerotic behavior in culturally accepted ways. The concept of "metrosexual" and its relation to the nineteenth-century figure of the dandy is discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; GENDER differences in mass media; GENDER role; QUEER Eye for the Straight Guy (TV program); DANDYISM; GENDER identity &; society; NINETEENTH century; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 2009, Vol 42, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-5931.2009.00573.x