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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 276
Pages: 276
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: University of Delaware Press
"Physiognomy in Profile affirms and assesses Lavater's contribution to European culture in the two hundred years after his death. It examines how Lavater's visi
Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This is a 2001 study of the emergence of physiognomy as a form of popular science.
Language: en
Pages: 308
Pages: 308
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
When nineteenth-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, th
Language: en
Pages: 425
Pages: 425
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was one of Spain's outstanding novelists and the author of two vast cycles of novels and a number of plays. In this critical stu