Books by Colin Jones
“The smile is second nature to some of us. We just assume that it is some kind of almost involuntary reaction to a real emotion. And therefore, we might expect it to be ever present and unchanging in the past. This books blows that out of the water. It really is the story of the changing nature of the smile in 18th-century France.” Read more...
Karen Harvey, Historian
Interviews where books by Colin Jones were recommended
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Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: A Social Sense
by William Tullett -
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Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography
by Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully -
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The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution
by Faramerz Dabhoiwala -
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Sleep in Early Modern England
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The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth Century Paris
by Colin Jones
The best books on The Body, recommended by Karen Harvey
The best books on The Body, recommended by Karen Harvey
We assume that many of our bodily functions—sleeping and smiling, for example—are ‘natural’ and culturally invariant. But their characteristics and expression are heavily influenced by their cultural milieu. Professor Karen Harvey explains how attitudes to the body in the 18th century were radically rethought in the light of changing scientific and cultural views of its nature and function.
