Note 9 to Chapter 10 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
See Davies, Phrenology, pp. 118-25; Edward Hungerford, "Poe and Phrenology" and "Whitman and His Chart of Bumps," American Literature, 2 (1930-31), 209-31, 350-84; Arthur Wrobel, "Whitman and the Phrenologists: The Divine Body and the Sensuous Soul," Publications of the Modern Language Asso- ciation, 89 (1974), 17-23; Wilfred M. Senseman, "Charlotte Bronte's Use of Physiognomy and Phrenology," Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 38 (1953), 475-86; Herbert R. Brown, The Sentimental Novel in America, 1789-lS60 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1940), pp. 189-96:and Conrad. The Victorian Treasure-House, pp. 59-60.
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