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The dome of thought: Phrenology and the nineteenth-century popular imagination

By William Hughes

Book information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781526143730
DOI
10.7765/9781526143730
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7379998 bytes)
Pages
\332
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-11-16 17:59:02

Description

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.

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