Physiognomy in the European novel : faces and fortunes /

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Author / Creator:	Tytler, Graeme, 1934- author.
Imprint:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1982] ©1982
Description:	1 online resource (458 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Princeton legacy library
Subject:	Lavater, Johann Caspar, -- 1741-1801. -- Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe. Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe (Lavater, Johann Caspar) European fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Physiognomy in literature. European fiction. Physiognomy in literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11277064

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ISBN:	9781400857265 1400857260 9780691064918 0691064911 0691614636 9780691614632
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-419) and index. In English. Print version record.
Summary:	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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Other form:	Print version: Tytler, Graeme. Physiognomy in the European novel : faces and fortunes. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1982] xix, 436 pages ; 23 cm Princeton legacy library 9780691614632
Standard no.:	10.1515/9781400857265

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
I. Introductory
II. Lavater and the Fhysiognomische Fragmente
III. Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century European Letters
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.

Physiognomy in the European novel : faces and fortunes /

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