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Gabriela Stoicea examines how the incidence and role of physical descriptions in German novels changed between 1771 and 1929 in response to developments in the study of the human face and body. As well as engaging the tools and methods of literary analysis, the study uses a cultural studies approach to offer a constellation of ideas and polemics surrounding the readability of the human body. By including discussions from the medical sciences, epistemology, and aesthetics, the book draws out the multi-faceted permutations of corporeal legibility, as well as its relevance for the development of the novel and for facilitating inter-disciplinary dialogue.
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Keywords
- body
- Body Language In Literature
- Cultural history
- European fiction
- Facial Expression In Literature
- German literature
- German Novels
- History
- History: specific events & topics
- Human body in literature
- Humanities
- literary studies
- Literary studies: general
- Literature
- Literature & literary studies
- Literature: history & criticism
- Physiognomy In Literature
- Racism
- Social & cultural history
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Sociology & anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
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