The dome of thought : phrenology and the nineteenth-century popular imagination /: phrenology and the nineteenth-century popular imagination. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: William Hughes.
• Authors: Hughes, William, 1964-
• Contents: Preamble ‘This far-famed skull’: exhumation and the autopsy of talent; 1 ‘Dr Gall, the anatomist, who gives lectures on the skull’: phrenology in Britain during the first decade of the nineteenth century; 2 ‘A field for quacks to fatten in’: phrenology in the British Isles; 3 ‘The doctrines of phrenology shall spread over Britain’: George Combe and the rise of British phrenology; 4 ‘That strange amalgamation of the two sciences’: mesmerism, celebrity practitioners and the schism of 1842-3; Conclusion: The decadence of phrenology: materiality and meaninglessness in modern Britain; Coda The phrenology of Donald J. Trump; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 139.09034; Phrenology -- History -- 19th century; Phrenology in mass media; Phrenology -- Public opinion; Phrenology in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526143747; 9781526143730
• Related ISBNs: 9781526143723
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