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The Dome of Thought - Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular Imagination (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,469
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The Dome of Thought - Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular Imagination (Hardcover): William Hughes

The Dome of Thought - Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular Imagination (Hardcover)

William Hughes

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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 siecle, 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 by the imagery of phrenology, The dome of thought will prove an essential resource for anybody with an interest in the popular and literary culture of the nineteenth century, including literary scholars, medical historians and the general reader. -- .

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Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2022
First published: 2022
Authors: William Hughes
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-4372-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
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LSN: 1-5261-4372-0
Barcode: 9781526143723

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