… other, the sun of modern humanitarian civilization shed its feeble … [A]ll this combines to make
the divine truth of physiognomy … did not assume a physiognomy common to all identifiable …

This book is the Life authorised and planned by Whistler himself, and it is based on material
furnished by himself and by his family. Whistler was certainly fortunate in his choice, for Mrs. …

… Considering the prior structuring of sexuality by several techniques distinctive to modern
societies redirects our attention away from integrationist legal strategies toward the ways in …

… Both examples demonstrate the artificiality of color through the metaphoric medium of modern
food. … With these two poles to guide me, in the pages that follow I explore modern fiction’s …

… because of the early modern English inclination towards physiognomy: and, as this
investigation demonstrates, an early modern text on physiognomy increased the circulation of …

… As Luke Roberts and Peter Perdue make clear, in their respective essays on early modern
Japan and China in this volume, this conflation of the national story on the local does great …

… can productively add to our understanding of modern British plays. Caryl Churchill plus Walter
… There are, then, signs that fruitful engagements between theory and modern British drama …

The revaluation of the sense of touch is one of the most revealing intellectual phenomena of
the early modern period. After over a millennium of neglect, accorded the last place in the …

… called “the character of [the] physiognomy.”No portrait is true in the … of pure imagination
contain more truth? Michel Covin at… , the first man of the modern era according to Emerson. Does …

… fictional and factual truths. Thus, Manzoni's essay inaugurates modern critical discussion on
… antidogmatic and pluralizing epistemologies of modern philosophical thought. Del romanzo …