Welcome to Central Library, SUST

Discerning characters

Lukasik, Christopher J.

Discerning characters the culture of appearance in early America / [electronic resource] : Christopher J. Lukasik. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (viii, 319 p. :) ill. ; - Early American studies . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-309) and index.

Discerning characters -- Reading and breeding -- The face of seduction -- The face of the public -- The invisible aristocrat -- The physiognomic fallacy.

9780812205930




Literature and society--History.--United States
Social perception--History.--United States
Physiognomy--History.--United States


United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865.
United States--Social life and customs--1775-1783.


Electronic books.

BF859 / .L85 2011

138.0973/09034