Article: Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth Century Culture.(Brief Article)

Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth Century Culture. By LUCY HARTLEY. (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 29) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xii+242pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $54.95. ISBN 0-521-79272-x.

This is an impressively erudite and carefully written work on a subject that has attracted much attention across the humanities and social sciences in recent years. Lucy Hartley's book is concerned with the emergence of physiognomy as a popular science in the nineteenth century, and traces its cultural impact. She writes about the cultural import of theories of human nature, ...

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