General Accounts of the Phrenological System

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 9 to Chapter 5 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.

For general accounts of the phrenological system, see John D. C Davies, Phrenology: Fad and Science (New Haven: Yale Uni- versity Press, 1955), and David de Giustino, Conquest of Mind: Phrenology and Victorian Social Thought (London: Croom Helm, 1975).

[See also see also the Victorian Web's section on phrenology, created by Dr.John van Weye of Cambridge University. GPL]

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