Coiffures

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Coiffures is written by Carol de Dobay Rifelj and published by University of Delaware Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0874130999 (ISBN 10) and 9780874130997 (ISBN 13).

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.