Title: Coiffures
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.
Subjects: Hair in literature, French literature, History and criticism, Popular culture, Hair in popular culture, Hair, Hairstyles, History, French literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Hairdressing, Popular culture, france, Social aspects
Places: France
Time periods: 19th century