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Rivers, Christopher

 
9780299143947: Face Value: Physiognomical Thought & the Legible Body in
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ISBN 10: 0299143945 ISBN 13: 9780299143947
Editorial: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002

Sinopsis

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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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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Editorial
University of Wisconsin Press
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0299143945
ISBN 13 
9780299143947
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
Contacto del fabricante
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9780299143909: Face Value: Physiognomical Thought in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier and Zola

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ISBN 10:  0299143902 ISBN 13:  9780299143909
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