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Publisher's 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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ISBN: 9780299143909
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint: The University of Wisconsin Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 840.9007
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 275
Weight: 566g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 19mm