Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures IX
5. List of Contributors XV
6. Introduction
7. Revealing and Concealing: Physiognomy and Bodily Signs 1
8. Facial Signs
9. Physiognomy: The Origins 23
10. Between the Face and the Skull: Jacopo Ligozzi and the Other Side of the Mirror 35
11. Profiling Deviance, Embodying Passions: Facing and Effacing Character Norms in 19^th-century Europe 65
12. Angelica, Clorinda and the descriptio puellae 95
13. Transforming Faces
14. Facial Gender-Affirming Surgery: Shaping Physiognomy for Transgender and Gender Non-Congruent Individuals 115
15. Fugitives, Physiognomy, Surgery, and Face Recognition Technology in the Modern Surveillance State 135
16. Modifying One’s Physiognomy in Antiquity 157
17. Faces in Rocks and Trenches: Facial Framings and Post-Colonial Dilemmas in the Australian Cinema of Peter Weir 175
18. Deciphering Faces
19. Reading Body Language and Physiognomic Signs in Andrea Mantegna’s Painting The Triumph of Virtue 221
20. The Cult of Beauty and Wellbeing in the Humana Physiognomonia and Other Works by Giovan Battista della Porta 243
21. The French Lavater: Translating Physiognomy into Science in the Late Enlightenment and Beyond 261
22. The Language of Emotions: From the Physiognomy of Giovan Battista della Porta to the Neuroscience 291
23. Folk Psychology and Physiognomy: Competing Strategies for Reading Other Minds 309
24. Index 329