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- Title
The Inscrutable Mystery of Faces.
- Authors
FULFORD, ROBERT
- Abstract
The article discusses the history of the practice of judging character or intelligence from faces. It comments on the fields of physiognomy, founded by seventeenth century physician-philosopher Thomas Browne, and craniology or phrenology, founded by German doctor Franz Joseph Gall. The author considers the ideas of Swiss pastor Johann Kaspar Lavater. He also considers how ideas about facial characteristics have led to concepts of lowbrow, middlebrow, and highbrow culture and addresses the depiction of brows in literature.
- Subjects
PHYSIOGNOMY; PHRENOLOGY; CRANIOLOGY; FACE in literature; SCIENCE &; civilization; CHARACTER; BROWNE, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682; GALL, F. J. (Franz Joseph), 1758-1828; LAVATER, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801; HISTORY
- Publication
Queen's Quarterly, 2013, Vol 120, Issue 2, p186
- ISSN
0033-6041
- Publication type
Article