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Face Value: Physiognomical Thought & the Legible Body in

Face Value: Physiognomical Thought & the Legible Body in

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Literary CriticismSports General

ISBN10: 0299143945
ISBN13: 9780299143947
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Nov 1 2002
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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