List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction Physiognomics and Realism
Chapter 1 "The Amorous Effects of ‘Brass’": Jane Austen (Emma)
Chapter 2 "By the Sweat of One’s Brow": Charlotte Brontë (The Professor & Villette)
Chapter 3 "The Dear Deceit of Beauty": George Eliot (Adam Bede & Daniel Deronda)
Chapter 4 Who Murdered Edwin Drood? Charles Dickens and Physiognomics
Chapter 5 Physiognomic Genre Parody: Joseph Conrad (Almayer’s Folly and The
Secret Agent)
Chapter 6 The Opacity of Modernist Vision: Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Eike Kronshage is an Assistant Professor at Chemnitz University of Technology.
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