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Face Value: Physiognomical Thought & the Legible Body in
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ISBN 9780299143947
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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Pub dateNov 1, 2002
ISBN-100299143945
ISBN-139780299143947
LanguageEnglish
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