Author: Percival, Melissa (and) Tytler, Graeme
Title: Physiognomy in Profile: Lavater's Impact on European Culture
Description: Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2005. Hardcover. A blue casebound book with the title in silver lettering down the spine. There is a light blue dust jacket with the title printed in black down the spine. Pages: (4), 5-258. Contains thirty-two black-and-white illustrations. Contents are as follows: Inborn character and free will in the history of physiognomy / Kevin Berland -- The physiognomy of inner bodies : hermetic and sensualist patterns of argument in the work of Johann Caspar Lavater / Maximilian Bergengruen -- Lavater contemplating a bust of Chatham : a conundrum in national and personal physiognomy / Mary Lynn Johnson -- Lavater and the drawing manual / Ross Woodrow -- What's behind a face? : Lavater and the anatomists / Caroline Warman -- Lavater's influence on Sir Walter Scott : a tacit assumption? / Graeme Tytler -- Physiognomy and the artist community in Eduard Mörike's Maler Nolten / John L. Plews -- "The sickness turned her inside out and now her soul was on her face" : disease, disfigurement, and the physiognomical conclusions of Laclos's Les liaisons dangereuses and Zola's Nana / Christopher Rivers -- "Er lasst sich nicht lesen" : physiognomy and the city / Michael Gamper -- Physiognomy, zoology, and physiology as paradigms in sociological sketches of the 1830s and 40s / Martina Lauster -- Toward a "modern" Lavater? : Degas and Manet / John House -- Some reflections on August Sander and his physiognomic portraits / Edward A. Aiken -- Lavater fictionalized : Jens Sparschuh's Lavaters maske / Chloe E.M. Paver -- Jeffrey Ford's The physiognomy : postmodern Lavater at the cusp of the twenty-first century / Clorinda Donato. VG+/VG+ .

Keywords: History ; Physiognomy ; ; Manners and Customs - European


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