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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 i



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. ix*List of Illustrations, pg. x*Acknowledgments, pg. xii*Preface, pg. xiii*I. Introductory, pg. 1*II. Lavater and the Fhysiognomische Fragmente, pg. 35*III. Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century European Letters, pg. 82*IV. Physiognomy in the Modem European Novel before 1800, pg. 123*V. Lavater and the Composite Portrait in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, pg. 166*VI. Aspects of Lavaterian Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Literary Portraiture, pg. 208*VII. Physiognomical Awareness in the Nineteenth- Century European Novel, pg. 260*Conclusion, pg. 316*Notes, pg. 323*Select Bibliography, pg. 393*Index, pg. 421

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691614632, 978-0691614632
      ISBN10: 0691614636
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. ix*List of Illustrations, pg. x*Acknowledgments, pg. xii*Preface, pg. xiii*I. Introductory, pg. 1*II. Lavater and the Fhysiognomische Fragmente, pg. 35*III. Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century European Letters, pg. 82*IV. Physiognomy in the Modem European Novel before 1800, pg. 123*V. Lavater and the Composite Portrait in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, pg. 166*VI. Aspects of Lavaterian Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Literary Portraiture, pg. 208*VII. Physiognomical Awareness in the Nineteenth- Century European Novel, pg. 260*Conclusion, pg. 316*Notes, pg. 323*Select Bibliography, pg. 393*Index, pg. 421

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