Physiognomy in the European Novel : : Faces and Fortunes / / Graeme Tytler.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
632 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (458 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part One the Historical Background
- I. Introductory
- II. Lavater and the Fhysiognomische Fragmente
- III. Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century European Letters
- Part Two the Literary Foreground
- IV. Physiognomy in the Modem European Novel before 1800
- V. Lavater and the Composite Portrait in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
- VI. Aspects of Lavaterian Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Literary Portraiture
- VII. Physiognomical Awareness in the Nineteenth- Century European Novel
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index