Beauty; Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in Woman

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Author

Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852

Title

Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in Woman

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Language

English

LoC Class

HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender

Subject

Beauty, Personal

Category

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eBook-No.

35409

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35409

Release Date

February 26, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.DEDICATION.
3. 3.AMERICAN ADVERTISEMENT.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.PRELIMINARY ESSAY,
6. 6.ADVERTISEMENT.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. — IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. — URGENCY OF THE DISCUSSION OF THIS SUBJECT IN RELATION TO THE INTERESTS OF DECENCY AND MORALITY.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. — CAUTIONS AS TO YOUTH.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. — NATURE OF BEAUTY.
11. 11.CHAPTER V. — STANDARD OF TASTE IN BEAUTY.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. — THE ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY. [11] — SECTION I. ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY IN INANIMATE BEINGS. — SECTION II. ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY IN LIVING BEINGS. — SECTION III. ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY IN THINKING BEINGS. — SECTION IV. ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY AS EMPLOYED IN OBJECTS OF ART.
13. 13.APPENDIX TO THE PRECEDING CHAPTERS. — SECTION I. NATURE OF THE PICTURESQUE. [17] — SECTION II. CAUSE OF LAUGHTER. — SECTION III. CAUSE OF THE PLEASURE RECEIVED FROM REPRESENTATIONS EXCITING PITY.
14. 14.CHAPTER VII. — ANATOMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES.
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII. — OF THE AGES OF WOMAN IN RELATION TO BEAUTY.
16. 16.CHAPTER IX. — OF THE CAUSES OF BEAUTY IN WOMAN.
17. 17.CHAPTER X. — OF THE STANDARD OF BEAUTY IN WOMAN.
18. 18.CHAPTER XI. — THE THREE SPECIES OF FEMALE BEAUTY GENERALLY VIEWED.
19. 19.CHAPTER XII. — FIRST SPECIES OF BEAUTY—BEAUTY OF THE LOCOMOTIVE SYSTEM.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIII. — SECOND SPECIES OF BEAUTY—BEAUTY OF THE NUTRITIVE SYSTEM.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIV. — THIRD SPECIES OF BEAUTY—BEAUTY OF THE THINKING SYSTEM.
22. 22.CHAPTER XV. — BEAUTY OF THE FACE IN PARTICULAR.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVI. — COMBINATIONS AND TRANSITIONS OF THE THREE SPECIES OF FEMALE BEAUTY.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVII. — PROPORTION, CHARACTER, EXPRESSION, ETC.
25. 25.CHAPTER XVIII. — THE GREEK IDEAL BEAUTY.
26. 26.CHAPTER XIX. — THE IDEAL OF FEMALE BEAUTY.
27. 27.CHAPTER XX. — DEFECTS OF BEAUTY.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXI. — EXTERNAL INDICATIONS; OR ART OF DETERMINING THE PRECISE FIGURE, THE DEGREE OF BEAUTY, THE MIND, THE HABITS, AND THE AGE OF WOMAN, NOTWITHSTANDING THE AIDS AND DISGUISES OF DRESS.
29. 29.APPENDIX. — A. — B. — C. — D. — E. — F. — G. — H.

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