Face Value

Face Value

Physiognomical Thought and the Legible Body in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier, and Zola

by Christopher Rivers

275 pages· 1994· ISBN 9780299143947
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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,

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