Face Value : Physiognomical Thought in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier and Zola
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0299143945
ISBN-13
9780299143947
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint
University of Wisconsin Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 30th, 1994
Weight
387 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 1.50 cms
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Explores ideas about human physical appearance expressed in French novels of the 18th/19th centuries (by Lavater, Marivaux, Balzac, Gautier, Zola), as well as the pseudoscience of physiognomy that influenced them. This science ""reads"" the body as an index to spiritual and intellectual qualities,
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