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About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

S.A. Pearl

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* List of Figures * Acknowledgments * Introduction: Face Facts * Pocket Physiognomy: Sense in the City * Performing Physiognomy: Imitating Art and Life * Portrait Physiognomy: Communicating Character * Caricature Physiognomy: Imaging Communities * Photographic Physiognomy: Through a Mediated Mirror * Diagnostic Physiognomy: From Phrenology to Fingerprints * Conclusion: Seeing Ourselves * Notes * Index

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Key concepts: Physiognomy, Portrait, Phrenology, Face (sociological concept), Character (mathematics), Index (typography), Art, Cartography