Face Value: Physiognomical Thought & the Legible Body in by Christopher Rivers

Face Value: Physiognomical Thought & the Legible Body in

Christopher Rivers

288 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary science medium-paced
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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...

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