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Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes
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Full Title:
Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes
Contributors:
By (Author) Graeme Tytler
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Dewey:
809.39353
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
458
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
Weight:
765g
Description
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 i
