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Face Value
- Physiognomical Thought in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier and Zola
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Published:
- December 30, 1994
- Dimensions:
- 229x152x15 mm.
Delivery:
1-2 weeks
Expected delivery: July 9, 2025
Description of Face Value
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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