Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Date: 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". viii, 319pp. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In this path-breaking study of the intersections between visual and literary culture, Christopher J. Lukasik explores how early Americans grappled with the relationship between appearance and social distinction in the decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Through a wide range of evidence, including canonical and obscure novels, newspapers, periodicals, scientific and medical treatises, and plays as well as conduct manuals, portraits, silhouettes, and engravings, Discerning Characters charts the transition from the eighteenth century's emphasis on performance and manners to the search for a more reliable form of corporeal legibility in the wake of the Revolution. The emergence of physiognomy, which sought to understand a person's character based on apparently unchanging facial features, facilitated a larger shift in perception about the meanings of physical appearance and its relationship to social distinction. The ensuing struggle between the face as a pliable medium of cultural performance and as rigid evidence of social standing, Lukasik argues, was at the center of the post-Revol ...

ISBN10: 0812242874, ISBN13: 9780812242874, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia] Hardcover First Edition First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". viii, 319pp. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In this path-breaking study of the intersections between visual and literary culture, Christopher J. Lukasik explores how early Americans grappled with the relationship between appearance and social distinction in the decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Through a wide range of evidence, including canonical and obscure novels, newspapers, periodicals, scientific and medical treatises, and plays as well as conduct manuals, portraits, silhouettes, and engravings, Discerning Characters charts the transition from the eighteenth century's emphasis on performance and manners to the search for a more reliable form of corporeal legibility in the wake of the Revolution. The emergence of physiognomy, which sought to understand a person's character based on apparently unchanging facial features, facilitated a larger shift in perception about the meanings of physical appearance and its relationship to social distinction. The ensuing struggle between the face as a pliable medium of cultural performance and as rigid evidence of social standing, Lukasik ...
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University of Pennsylvania Press. Hardcover in jacket. Crisp and clean condition; just a hint of shelfwear to jacket. . Fine. Hardcover. Date: 2011. 2011. University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN 0812242874 9780812242874 [US]

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University of Pennsylvania Press, Date: 2010. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket. Book has shelfwear & minor soiling to bottom edge (only) of text block; DJ has shelfwear. Interior is tight, clean, & unmarked. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in. 2010. University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN 0812242874 9780812242874 [US]

University of Pennsylvania Pre 2010 hardcover Good Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.