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Character -- History.
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Character : the history of a cultural obsession / Marjorie Garber.
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Garber, Marjorie B., author.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Subjects
Character -- History.
ISBN:
9780374120856 (hardcover) :
Description:
443 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Testing it: politics, sports, celebrity -- Teaching it: tales out of school -- Claiming it: the idea of national character -- Reading it: the rise and 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 -- The difference gender makes: mettle, spunk, and the right stuff.
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"An investigation into the concept of character, an enduring human obsession in literature, psychology, politics, and everyday life"--
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
155.2 Ga
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