About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Sharrona Pearl

Hartley, Lucy

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“…might be characteristically more or less present in a certain city, part of what MartinaLöw (2012) describes as its 'intrinsic logic', or at a certain stage of a city's history (see Colin Jones's delightful history of the 'smile revolution' in eighteenth-century Paris(Jones 2014); see also Sharrona Pearl's chapter 'Pocket physiognomy: Sense in the city', inPearl (2010) andPercival and Tytler (2005) on the late modern 'physiognomy frenzy' in European cities). A city's 'facial landscape' is therefore characterised by concentration and visibility of specific face types throughout the city.…”

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Envisaging the city: roadmap for an interdisciplinary study of urban facescapes

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INTRODUCTION: URBAN FACETS'How can I not know today your face tomorrow, the one that is there already or is being forged beneath the face you show me or beneath the mask you are wearing, and which you will only show me when I am least expecting it?', 1 acclaimed Spanish writer Javier Marías wonders in the first volume of the monumental novel Tu rostro mañana (Your face tomorrow), whose central theme is betrayal, as well as the relationship between face, foreboding and knowledge: evil, when it arrives, arrives with a face that we had already intuited under its mask, but that we had instinctively chosen not to perceive consciously, as though obeying a supreme imperative according to which it would be atrocious to live with the deep certainty of what the face hides. The same could be asked about cities: Could we survive in a city, for example in one of the cities that we visit as tourists, if we knew what is hidden under their masks? Those which they don at every step, either spontaneously or -and such is the case of the most visited cities in the world -because their faces have been carefully made up in order to convey an image, as urban marketing would say, but also, as the quote by Javier Marías suggests, in order to hide their true faces, or at least some of their deep layers? Those that, under the masks, are presented to the tourist, to the traveller, to the business professional, layers where a bitter and treacherous truth is often hidden?Talking about the face of a city is a fruitful metaphor, since it allows one to distinguish between the project of a planned and conscious visibility and the underground tingling of deep and painful features, hidden by the brushstrokes of urban makeup. The pimples, the wrinkles, the dark circles of a city do not appear to the distracted visitor, the one who is carried away by the illusion of a superficial splendour, and only emerge as almost imperceptible signs, for perceiving and interpreting which one needs a sharp and sceptical look,

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“…Eco zmiňuje publikaci Il Lavater portatile (Příruční Lavater) vydanou roku 1811, v anglickém prostředí bylo takových popularizací i více(Eco 2002;Pearl 2010).…”

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Publikace vznikla v rámci grantového projektu GA ČR GA18-04420S a v rámci výzkumného záměru Ústavu pro českou literaturu Akademie věd České republiky, v. v. i. (RVO: 68378068). Při práci na textu knihy byly využity zdroje výzkumné infrastruktury Česká literární bibliografie (kód ORJ: 90136). Kniha byla vydána s podporou Akademie věd České republiky.Katalogizační údaje jsou k dispozici v Národní knihovně ČR.Vydává Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i.

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About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Sharrona Pearl

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Envisaging the city: roadmap for an interdisciplinary study of urban facescapes

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