Author: James W. RedfieldPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Outlines of a new system of physiognomy
Author: James W. RedfieldOutlines of a New System of Physiognomy
Author: James W. RedfieldPublisher: New York : J.S. Redfield ; Boston : Redding
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Category : Facial expression
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations
Author: Andrew Jackson DavisPublisher:
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Category : Life
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
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Author Catalog
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle
Author: George Frederick TuttlePublisher:
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Discerning Characters
Author: Christopher J. LukasikPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In this path-breaking study of the intersections between visual and literary culture, Christopher J. Lukasik explores how early Americans grappled with the relationship between appearance and social distinction in the decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Through a wide range of evidence, including canonical and obscure novels, newspapers, periodicals, scientific and medical treatises, and plays as well as conduct manuals, portraits, silhouettes, and engravings, Discerning Characters charts the transition from the eighteenth century's emphasis on performance and manners to the search for a more reliable form of corporeal legibility in the wake of the Revolution. The emergence of physiognomy, which sought to understand a person's character based on apparently unchanging facial features, facilitated a larger shift in perception about the meanings of physical appearance and its relationship to social distinction. The ensuing struggle between the face as a pliable medium of cultural performance and as rigid evidence of social standing, Lukasik argues, was at the center of the post-Revolutionary novel, which imagined physiognomic distinction as providing stability during a time of cultural division and political turmoil. As Lukasik shows, this tension between a model of character grounded in the fluid performances of the self and one grounded in the permanent features of the face would continue to shape not only the representation of social distinction within the novel but, more broadly, the practices of literary production and reception in nineteenth-century America across a wide range of media. The result is a new interdisciplinary interpretation of the rise of the novel in America that reconsiders the political and social aims of the genre during the fifty years following the Revolution. In so doing, Discerning Characters powerfully rethinks how we have read—and continue to read—both novels and each other.
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: The English Spelling Book ... Stereotype Edition
Author: William Fordyce MavorPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Catalogue of the Library of Edwin Forrest
Author: Edwin ForrestPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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New Physiognomy and External Forms, and Especially in "the Human Face Divine."
Author: Samuel Roberts WellsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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