Author: Johann Caspar Lavater
Publisher:
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Category : Physiognomy
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Johann Caspar Lavater
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Pocket Lavater; or, The Science of Physiognomy" (To which is added an inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy) by Johann Caspar Lavater, Giambattista della Porta. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Johann Caspar Lavater
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Face
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Johann Caspar Lavater
Publisher:
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Category : Facial expression
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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Author: Joseph Simms
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physiognomy
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: John Graham
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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"Lavater's Physiognomy: an international checklist of publications": p. 85-101.

Author: Kamila Pawlikowska
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004302263
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) is a study of a-physiognomic descriptions of the face. It demonstrates that writers such as George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Nicolay Gogol, Virginia Woolf and Witold Gombrowicz vigorously resisted the belief that facial features reflect character. While other studies tend to focus on descriptions which affirm physiognomy, this book examines portraits which question popular face-reading systems and contravene their common premise – the surface-depth principle. Such portraits reveal that physiognomic formula is a cultural construct, invented to abridge, organise and regulate legibility of the human face. Most importantly, strange and ‘unreadable’ fictional faces frequently expose the connection between physiognomic judgement and stereotyping, prejudice and racism.

Author: University Institute (University of Vermont)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher: Washington : U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Includes works in nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, child care, hygiene, firstaid, education, and psychology, as well as quackery, faith cures, and astrological medicine.

Author: Miriam Claude Meijer
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042004344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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After the discovery of the anthropoid ape in Asia and in Africa, eighteenth-century Holland became the crossroads of Enlightenment debates about the human species. Material evidence about human diversity reached Petrus Camper, comparative anatomist in the Netherlands, who engaged, among many other interests, in "menschkunde." Could only religious doctrine support the belief of human demarcation from animals? Camper resolved the challenges raised by overseas discoveries with his thesis of the "facial angle," a theory which succeeding generations distorted and misused in order to justify slavery, racism, antisemitism, and genocide. Thanks to his abundant papers in Dutch archives, Camper's ideas are restored to their original state. Eighteenth-century issues differed from those of other centuries: Did orang-utans talk like humans, walk like humans; even rape humans? What was the skin pigmentation of Adam and Eve? Did the spectrum of human physiognomies around the globe reflect the Fall of Man, the Creator's bounty, or merely bizarre beauty practices? Why did the ideal beauty of the Greeks appear to be the reverse of the Hottentots? The book contains some 50 illustrations, including apes with hiking sticks or tea cups, metamorphoses of living forms, and Apollo or Venus icons which titillated the "science of man."