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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Phrenology"”.
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The body in question : some perceptions, problems and perspectives of the body in relation to character, c. 1750-1850
… a set of popular characterologies- physiognomy, phrenology, and organology- tracing the relations of each to a number of different discourses. In what is a long and complex series of arguments and expositions, the thesis is equipped with numerous general and particular summaries and introductions …
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Frontier Pedagogies: The Rhetorics of Expansion and Reform in Antebellum America
… Land Survey System and the ""pseudo-science"" of phrenology; the second traces the rhetoric of citizen mobility in the ""weltering styles"" of Catherine Beecher and Margaret Fuller; and the third addresses the national work of both symbolic and physical disease in frontier Cincinnati. ""Frontier …
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Charles Dickens' Trope of Great Gulfs: Irony in Bleak House
… mores of his era, Dickens uses the language of phrenology and craniology to satirize the "science" that the English were using to justify their expansionism into "lesser'' intellectually and morally developed parts of the world, most notably Africa. He also uses the trope of cannibalism in terms …
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A Market for Death: The Use and Abuse of Cadavers in Nineteenth-Century America
"A Market for Death: The Use and Abuse of Cadavers in Nineteenth-Century America" examines the rise of grave robbing for the procurement of human bodies for educational and entertainment purposes. In the late eighteenth century, new medical schools sought cadavers for dissection and anatomical …