About faces : physiognomy in nineteenth-century Britain / Sharrona Pearl.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.

xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: face facts -- Pocket physiognomy: sense in the city -- Performing physiognomy: imitating art and life -- Portrait physiognomy: communicating character -- Caricature physiognomy: imaging communities -- Photographic physiognomy: through a mediated mirror -- Diagnostic physiognomy: from phrenology to fingerprints -- Conclusion: seeing ourselves.