Book ID: CBB000071365

The faces of physiognomy: Interdisciplinary approaches to Johann Caspar Lavater (1993)

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Shookman, Ellis (Editor)


Camden House


Publication Date: 1993
Physical Details: x + 192 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Shookman, Ellis: Pseudo-science, social fad, literary wonder: Johann Caspar Lavater and the art of physiognomy. Siegrist, Christoph: “Letters of the divine alphabet”: Lavater's concept of physiognomy. Zelle, Carsten: Soul semiology: On Lavater's physiognomic principles. Frey, Siegfried: Lavater, Lichtenberg, and the suggestive power of the human face. Wechsler, Judith: Lavater, stereotype, and prejudice. Hart, Katherine: Physiognomy and the art of caricature. Graham, John: Contexts of physiognomic description: Ut pictura poesis. Rivers, Christopher: “L'homme hiéroglyphié”: Balzac, physiognomy, and the legible body. Tytler, Graeme: Lavater and the 19th-century English novel. Lavater, Warja: Perception: When signs start to communicate.


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Authors & Contributors
Lavater, Johann Caspar
Gray, Richard T.
Craig, Charlotte M.
Stumpp, Gabriele
Stemmler, Joan K.
Stadler, Ulrich
Concepts
Personality; character
Psychology
Physiognomy
Science
Science and race
National Socialism
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century
Places
Germany
Great Britain
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