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25. Reading the Body in the Early American Republic: Science, Material Culture, and Memory

Friday, January 7, 9:30–11:30 a.m.

Sheraton, Cedar Room

  • Chair: Catherine Allgor, University of California at Riverside

  • Papers: Reading and Reading Faces: Dissimulation, Physiognomy, and the
    Post-Revolutionary Novel

    Christopher Lukasik, Boston University

    Their Bodies, Their Selves: African American Revolutionary War Veterans and the Physicalist Turn in American Mnemonics, 1790–1840

    Keith Beutler, Missouri Baptist University

    The Physiognomy of Fashion, Fashion as Physiognomy: Toward a Science of Appearances in the Early American Republic

    Linzy A. Brekke, Harvard University

  • Comment: Catherine E. Kelly, University of Oklahoma
   
     
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