‘For God’s Sake Look at This!’: Physiognomy in Bleak House
This essay hopes to add to the impressive array of criticism and scholarship about the ’science’ of physiognomy, derived from Lavater, in Dickens, focussing chiefly on its role in Bleak House. I survey the successful observers of physiognomy in the novel, such as Esther and Woodcourt, and what they...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cve/6255 |