An Iconography of Noses: Directions in the History of a Physical Styereotype
- Author / Editor
- David, Alfred.
An Iconography of Noses: Directions in the History of a Physical Styereotype
- Published
- Jane Chance and R. O. Wells, Jr., eds. Mapping the Cosmos. (Houston, Tex.: Rice University Press, 1985), pp. 76-97.
- Description
- Examines physiognomical traditions of noses in medieval "descriptio" in rhetoric books, noses of the Miller and Prioress in GP, noses in RvT, and noses in French romances and in later literature.
- Contributor
- Chance, Jane,
- Wells, R. O., Jr.,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- Mapping the Cosmos.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Reeve and His Tale.