Face Value: Physiognomical Thought & the Legible Body in by Rivers, Christopher

Face Value: Physiognomical Thought & the Legible Body in (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780299143947)

Vendor: Christopher Rivers
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Format: Paperback
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Face Value: Physiognomical Thought & the Legible Body in by Rivers, Christopher

Face Value: Physiognomical Thought & the Legible Body in

$24.95
Face Value: Physiognomical Thought & the Legible Body in by Rivers, Christopher

Face Value: Physiognomical Thought & the Legible Body in

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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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,

Author: Christopher Rivers
ISBN-10: 0299143945
ISBN-13: 9780299143947
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/1994
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

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