Author: Carol de Dobay RifeljPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 0874130999
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Examines nineteenth-century hairstyles and their cultural associations, and analyzes the social and symbolic roles that hair played in literary representations of the new body ideal of the era in fashion magazines, and as clues to social status, sexual availability and character in the fiction of major French authors including Baudelaire, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola.
