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Face Value: Physiognomical Thought in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier and Zola - Softcover

University Of Wisconsin Press

 
9780299143947: Face Value: Physiognomical Thought in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier and Zola

Synopsis

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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