Coiffures - Hair in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture (Hardcover)

Balzac claimed that toilettes were the expression of society. Coiffures describes the historical and cultural practices associated with women's hairstyles, hair care, and hair art in nineteenth-century France. Hair also has profound symbolic significance. Lying on the border between life and death, it grows, but does not feel. It marks sexual identity; it can be wild and erotic or tamed and made docile by hairdressing. Literary works are inevitably informed by social and cultural practices, and those of the period make extensive use of the meanings of hair. The Realist novelists in particular devote great attention to the physical traits and dress of their characters, and hair is often a key element in their descriptions and plots. Coiffures shows how a wide range of literary works incorporate the manifold aspects of hair, and it examines particular texts in detail, including works by Balzac, Sand, Flaubert, Zola, Gautier, Maupassant, and Rodenbach.

General

Imprint:	University of Delaware Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2010
First published:	June 2010
Authors:	Carol Rifelj
Dimensions:	243 x 167 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	298
ISBN-13:	978-1-61149-148-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works
LSN:	1-61149-148-7
Barcode:	9781611491487

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