Title:
Character : the history of a cultural obsession / Marjorie Garber.
ISBN:
9780374120856
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
©2020
Physical Description:
443 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Testing it: politics, sports, celebrity -- Teaching it: tales out of school -- Claiming it: the idea of national character -- Reading it: the rise, fall, and (un)surprising return of phrenology -- Naming it: psychoanalysis, psychology, and the emergence of "personality" -- Seeing it: art, physiognomy, photography, gesture, science -- Character types: Greeks, geeks, nerds - and little miss hug -- Difference gender makes: mettle, spunk, and the right stuff.
Summary:
"An investigation into the concept of character, an enduring human obsession in literature, psychology, politics, and everyday life"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Term:
OCLC Number:
on1119764414
Availability:
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