num_pages: 288
description: 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,
language: English
title: Face Value: Physiognomical Thought & The Legible Body In
titlecomplete: Face Value: Physiognomical Thought & The Legible Body In
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press