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Physiognomy in the European Novel : Faces and Fortunes /
After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines the literary portrait in the modern novel and suggests that the development of techniques of character description and the growth of observational...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1982]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- I. Introductory
- II. Lavater and the Fhysiognomische Fragmente
- III. Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century European Letters
- IV. Physiognomy in the Modem European Novel before 1800
- V. Lavater and the Composite Portrait in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
- VI. Aspects of Lavaterian Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Literary Portraiture
- VII. Physiognomical Awareness in the Nineteenth- Century European Novel
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index.