About faces: physiognomy in nineteenth-century Britain and Books Like It
When 19th century Londoners looked at each other, what did they see, and how did they want to be seen? Sharrona Pearl reveals the way that physiognomy, the study of facial features and their relations…
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About the book
When 19th century Londoners looked at each other, what did they see, and how did they want to be seen? Sharrona Pearl reveals the way that physiognomy, the study of facial features and their relationship to character, shaped the way that people understood one another and presented themselves.
Themes and subjects
The book moves through ideas like Physiognomy, Facial expression, Face perception, Great britain, social conditions, History, and Physiognomy--history. These subjects give the story its texture and make it easy to recommend to the right reader.
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