Silent History: Body Language and Nonverbal Identity, 1860-1914 9780773555471
An innovative historical study of body language using unknown snapshot photography. An innovative historical study of
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English Pages [313] Year 2018
Table of contents :
Cover
SILENT HISTORY
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE
1 The Culture of Nonverbal Communication in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
2 Posing for Portraits: Conventions and Aberrations
PART TWO
Introduction to the Case Studies
3 Case Study 1: Posing with a Walking-Stick
4 Case Study 2: “Licensed Withdrawal”
5 Case Study 3: The Female Akimbo Pose
6 Case Study 4: The Waistcoat Pose
7 Case Study 5: Hands in Trouser Pockets
PART THREE
8 Observations on Urban Body Language I: Street Types in the Periodical Press
9 Observations on Urban Body Language II: Stage-Comedy Stock Characters
10 Everyday Body Language and Its Contexts: Concluding Remarks
Coda: The Decline of the Graceful Ideal, or How Hitler Became Ridiculous
APPENDIX Biographical Notes on Photographers
Notes
Index
