Author: Carol de Dobay Rifelj

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0874130999

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.