Coiffures
Subtitle: hair in nineteenth-century French literature and culture
By: Carol Rifelj.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780874130997
Subjects: French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Hair in literature; Hair in popular culture; Hair -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 19th century; Hairstyles -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 19th century; Popular culture -- France -- History -- 19th century
Description: Examines nineteenth-century hairstyles and their cultural associations, and analyzes the social and symbolic roles that hair played in literary representations of the new body ideal of the era in fashion magazines, and as clues to social status, sexual availability and character in the fiction of major French authors including Baudelaire, Balzac, Flaubert,and Zola.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The language of hairstyles; title: Sex and sexual identity; title: Color; title: Toilettes; title: Cuts and locks.