Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture: (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu)

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu

In Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Lucy Hartley examines the emergence of physiognomy as a form of popular science. Physiognomy posited an understanding of the inner meaning of human character from observations of physical appearances, usually facial expressions. Taking the physiognomical teachings of Johann Caspar Lavater as a starting-point, Hartley consi