Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. by John Caspar Lavater, ... Illustrated by More Than Eight Hundred Engravings ... Executed By, Or Under the Inspection Of, Thomas Holloway of 3;

Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. by John Caspar Lavater, ... Illustrated by More Than Eight Hundred Engravings ... Executed By, Or Under the Inspection Of, Thomas Holloway of 3;
Author: Johann Caspar Lavater
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781385573921

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T139902 Originally written in German. Vols. 2 and 3, dated 1792 and 1798 respectively, are each in two parts. With a list of subscribers in vol.1. London: printed for John Murray; H. Hunter; and T. Holloway, 1789-98. 3v., plates: ill., ports.; 4°

Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. By John Caspar Lavater, ... Illustrated by More Than Eight Hundred Engravings ... Executed By, Or Under the Inspection Of, Thomas Holloway of 3; Volume 3

Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. By John Caspar Lavater, ... Illustrated by More Than Eight Hundred Engravings ... Executed By, Or Under the Inspection Of, Thomas Holloway of 3; Volume 3
Author: Johann Caspar Lavater
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781385573945

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T139902 Originally written in German. Vols. 2 and 3, dated 1792 and 1798 respectively, are each in two parts. With a list of subscribers in vol.1. London: printed for John Murray; H. Hunter; and T. Holloway, 1789-98. 3v., plates: ill., ports.; 4°

Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy

Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy
Author: Sibylle Erle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2017-12-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351193694

"William Blake never travelled to the continent, yet his creation myth is far more European than has ever been acknowledged. The painter Henry Fuseli introduced Blake to traditional European thinking, and Blake responded to late 18th century body-theory in his Urizen books (1794-95), which emerged from his professional work as a copy-engraver on Henry Hunter's translation of Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy (1789-98). Lavater's work contains hundreds of portraits and their physiognomical readings. Blake, Fuseli, Joshua Reynolds and their contemporaries took a keen interest in the ideas behind physiognomy in their search for the right balance between good likeness and type in portraits. Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy demonstrates how the problems occurring during the production of the Hunter translation resonate in Blake's treatment of the Genesis story. Blake takes us back to the creation of the human body, and interrogates the idea that 'God created man after his own likeness.' He introduces the 'Net of Religion', a device which presses the human form into material shape, giving it personality and identity. As Erle shows, Blake's startlingly original take on the creation myth is informed by Lavater's pursuit of physiognomy: the search for divine likeness, traced in the faces of their contemporary men."