Dome of Thought
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George Combe
Lorenzo Niles Fowler
medical history
mesmerism
phrenology
pseudoscience
quackery
skulls
Victorian psychology
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- ISBN 9781526143723
- Weight: 531g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Mar 2022
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The dome of thought is the first study of phrenology based primarily on the popular – rather than medical – appreciation of this important and controversial pseudoscience. With detailed reference to the reports printed in popular newspapers from the early years of the nineteenth century to the fin de siècle, the book provides an unequalled insight into the Victorian public’s understanding of the techniques, assumptions and implications of defining a person’s character by way of the bumps on their skull. Highly relevant to the study of the many authors – Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, among them – whose fiction was informed by the imagery of phrenology, The dome of thought will prove an essential resource for anybody with an interest in the popular and literary culture of the nineteenth century, including literary scholars, medical historians and the general reader.
William Hughes is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau
