The dome of thought
Phrenology and the nineteenth-century popular imagination
The dome of thought is the first study of phrenology based primarily on the popular - rather than medical - appreciation of this important and controversial pseudoscience. With detailed reference to the reports printed in popular newspapers from the early years of the nineteenth century to the fin de siècle, the book provides an unequalled insight into the Victorian public's understanding of the techniques, assumptions and implications of defining a person's character by way of the bumps on their skull. Highly relevant to the study of the many authors - Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, among them - whose fiction was informed…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5261-4372-3
- EAN: 9781526143723
- Produktnummer: 37740909
- Verlag: Manchester University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 332 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.1 cm 552 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 552
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