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288 pages • missing pub info (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780299143947
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Edition Pub Date: 01 November 2002
Description
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...
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288 pages • missing pub info (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780299143947
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Edition Pub Date: 01 November 2002
Description
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...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings