Paperback (30 Nov 1994)
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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,
| ISBN: | 9780299143947 |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Imprint: | The University of Wisconsin Press |
| Pub date: | 30 Nov 1994 |
| DEWEY: | 840.9007 |
| DEWEY edition: | 20 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 275 |
| Weight: | 385g |
| Height: | 229mm |
| Width: | 152mm |
| Spine width: | 19mm |
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