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Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes

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Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes - Tytler, Graeme
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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 powers of narrators and characters alike, as manifest in fiction from the 1790s onward, may be more fully appreciated when considered in the light of the physiognomical background previously delineated. Originally published in 1982. ...

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Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes 2016, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

ISBN-13: 9780691642239

Hardcover

Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes 2014, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

ISBN-13: 9780691614632

Trade paperback

Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes 1982, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691064918

Hardcover