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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.
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