Faces of the People
Richard Altick, 19 August 1982
Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes
by Graeme Tytler.
Princeton, 436 pp., £19.10, March 1982,0 691 06491 1 Show More
by Graeme Tytler.
Princeton, 436 pp., £19.10, March 1982,
A Human Comedy: Physiognomy and Caricature in 19th-century Paris
by Judith Wechsler.
Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £18.50, June 1982,0 500 01268 7 Show More
by Judith Wechsler.
Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £18.50, June 1982,
“... to their stock of ideas: Goethe, Heine, Herder, Novalis, Jean Paul, Madame de Staël, Stendhal, George Sand. Many English writers, resisting the fanaticism with which phrenology was being promoted (George Combe’s The Constitution of Man, the central manifesto of the cult, sold 50,000 copies between 1835 and 1838 ... ”