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About Faces : Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain / Sharrona Pearl.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]Copyright date: 2010Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674054400
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 138.0941/09034 22
LOC classification:
  • BF851
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Face Facts -- 1. Pocket Physiognomy: Sense in the City -- 2. Performing Physiognomy: Imitating Art and Life -- 3. Portrait Physiognomy: Communicating Character -- 4. Caricature Physiognomy: Imaging Communities -- 5. Photographic Physiognomy: Through a Mediated Mirror -- 6. Diagnostic Physiognomy: From Phrenology to Fingerprints -- Conclusion: Seeing Ourselves -- Notes -- Index
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674054400

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Face Facts -- 1. Pocket Physiognomy: Sense in the City -- 2. Performing Physiognomy: Imitating Art and Life -- 3. Portrait Physiognomy: Communicating Character -- 4. Caricature Physiognomy: Imaging Communities -- 5. Photographic Physiognomy: Through a Mediated Mirror -- 6. Diagnostic Physiognomy: From Phrenology to Fingerprints -- Conclusion: Seeing Ourselves -- Notes -- Index

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In English.

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