The dome of thought : Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular Imagination
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1526143720
ISBN-13
9781526143723
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 30th, 2022
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
548 grams
Dimensions
14.50 x 22.20 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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The dome of thought is an accessible and lively history of the Victorian pseudoscience of phrenology. It makes extensive use of the popular accounts found in contemporary newspapers and journals, the majority of this material being reproduced for the first time since the nineteenth century. -- .
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 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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