About Faces - Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Informationen zum Autor Sharrona Pearl is Assistant Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext 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! the study of facial features and their relationship to character! shaped the way that people understood one another and presented themselves. Physiognomy was initially a practice used to get information about others! but soon became a way to self-consciously give information--on stage! in print! in images! in research! and especially on the street. Moving through a wide range of media! Pearl shows how physiognomical notions rested on instinct and honed a kind of shared subjectivity. She looks at the stakes for framing physiognomy--a practice with a long history--as a science in the nineteenth century. By showing how physiognomy gave people permission to judge others! Pearl holds up a mirror both to Victorian times and our own. Zusammenfassung 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 in 19th-century Britain. By showing how physiognomy gave people permission to judge others! Pearl holds up a mirror both to Victorian times and our own.

Product details

• Authors: Sharrona Pearl, Pearl Sharrona
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2010
• EAN: 9780674036048
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03604-8
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Soziale Diskriminierung und Gleichbehandlung, Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik), Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Handlesen, Phrenologie und Physiognomie, Ethnic Studies, History, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Divination from physical attributes, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Crime and criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations