| Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes Subjects: European fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Physiognomy in literature; Lavater Johann Caspar 1741–1801. Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe.; After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines the literary portrait in the modern novel and suggests that the development of techniques of character description and the growth of observational powers of narrators and characters alike, as manifest in fiction from the 1790s onward, may be more fully appreciated when considered in the light of the physiognomical background previously delineated. |