Face Value: Physiognomical Thought and the Legible Body in Marivaux, Lavatar, Balzac, Gautier and Zola Book

Face Value: Physiognomical Thought and the Legible Body in Marivaux, Lavatar, Balzac, Gautier and Zola, In Face Value, Christopher Rivers explores ideas about human physical appearance expressed in French novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the pseudoscience of physiognomy that influenced them. Physiognomy, which purports t, Face Value: Physiognomical Thought and the Legible Body in Marivaux, Lavatar, Balzac, Gautier and Zola

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Face Value: Physiognomical Thought and the Legible Body in Marivaux, Lavatar, Balzac, Gautier and Zola
Written by author Christopher Rivers
Published by University of Wisconsin Press, November 1994
In Face Value, Christopher Rivers explores ideas about human physical appearance expressed in French novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the pseudoscience of physiognomy that influenced them. Physiognomy, which purports t

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Acknowledgments
Introduction 3
1 From Analogy to Causality: The History of Physiognomy before 1700 18
2 Marivaux, le masque, and le miroir 33
3 Lavater and l'alphabet divin 66
4 Balzac and l'homme hieroglyphie 104
5 Gautier and la beaute de l'ambigu 140
6 Zola and le signe de la femme fatale 175
Conclusion 207
Notes 217
Bibliography 259
Index 271

Title: Face Value: Physiognomical Thought and the Legible Body in Marivaux, Lavatar, Balzac, Gautier and Zola

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Publication Date: November 1994

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Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)

Width: 6.200 cm (2.44 inches)

Heigh : 9.300 cm (3.66 inches)

Depth: 0.900 cm (0.35 inches)

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This is a scholarly book. While I usually enjoy scholarly books, too, I'm just not that interested in 18th century French women and high fashion. But the paper this book is printed on...ooh la la! You could make a christening gown from it.

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	Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
1	From Analogy to Causality: The History of Physiognomy before 1700	18
2	Marivaux, le masque, and le miroir	33
3	Lavater and l'alphabet divin	66
4	Balzac and l'homme hieroglyphie	104
5	Gautier and la beaute de l'ambigu	140
6	Zola and le signe de la femme fatale	175
	Conclusion	207
	Notes	217
	Bibliography	259
	Index	271