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Author:

Rivers, Christopher.

Title:

Face value : physiognomical thought and the legible body in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier, and Zola / Christopher Rivers.

Publisher:

University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

xii, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Lavater, Johann Caspar,--1741-1801--Physiognomy.--Physiognomy.
Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de,--1688-1763--Physiognomy.--Physiognomy.
Face in literature.
French literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Physiognomy in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-269) and index.

ISBN:

9780299143947 (pbk.) :
0299143945 (pbk.) :
9780299143909 (cloth) :
0299143902 (cloth) :

LCCN:

94014586

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)