Lavater used a pseudo-scientific system to judge man's character from physiognomy. His
comments about the origins of an individual's physiognomy and the graphic representations …

" William Blake never travelled to the continent, yet his creation myth is far more European
than has ever been acknowledged. The painter Henry Fuseli introduced Blake to traditional …

Tracing the use of legal themes in the gothic novel, Bridget M. Marshall shows these devices
reflect an outpouring of anxiety about the nature of justice. On both sides of the Atlantic …

" Physiognomy in Profile affirms and assesses Lavater's contribution to European culture in
the two hundred years after his death. It examines how Lavater's vision of physiognomy as a …

Best known as a satirist of Parisian politics and daily life, Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) was
a prolific caricaturist. This book is the first to examine the role of exoticism in his art, and to …

Socrates boasts one of the most particularized bodies of antiquity: we possess detailed,
sometimes even loving, descriptions of the shapes of his eyes, nose, and belly, his gait and …

La tradition physiognomonique a invariablement conduit ses défenseurs à répéter
fidèlement sa formulation d'origine selon laquelle le caractère et les mouvements de l'âme …

Whoever would paint portraits perfectly must so paint that each spectator may, with truth,
exclaim, This is indeed to paint! This is true, living likeness; perfect nature; it is not painting …

In two of the more influential accounts of America's transition from eighteenth-century colony
to nineteenth-century nation, the body has been identified either as antithetical to the …

During the 1790s, political speech in London's public spaces and commercial sites of leisure
came under intense governmental surveillance. Fearing revolutionary infection from across …