Faces of the People
Richard Altick, 19 August 1982
Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes
by Graeme Tytler.
Princeton, 436 pp., £19.10, March 1982,0 691 06491 1 Show More
by Graeme Tytler.
Princeton, 436 pp., £19.10, March 1982,
A Human Comedy: Physiognomy and Caricature in 19th-century Paris
by Judith Wechsler.
Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £18.50, June 1982,0 500 01268 7 Show More
by Judith Wechsler.
Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £18.50, June 1982,
“... of expression’ as ‘a kind of mother-tongue at which we learn to become more or less adept’. Graeme Tytler’s book describes the impact of Lavater, or at least physiognomy as popularised by his successors, on the 19th-century European novel. The device of physical description which after 1800 became a hallmark of fictional technique was, he ... ”
