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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786800903321

Autore

Jones Colin

Titolo

The smile revolution : in eighteenth century Paris / / Colin Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-19-102485-6

0-19-102484-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Disciplina

911.44361

Soggetti

Paris (France) Antiquities

Paris (France) Ethnic relations

Paris (France) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; THE SMILE REVOLUTION IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PARIS; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1: The Old Regime of Teeth; Louis XIV's non-smile; Smiles under strict control; The power of royal example; 2: The Smile of Sensibility; Regency glimpses of the smile; 'Smiles on the mouth and tears in the eyes'; Visualizing the smile of sensibility; 3: Cometh the Dentist; The Pont-Neuf tooth-pulling carnival; A tale of two dentists; Enlightened Parisian teeth; 4: The Making of a Revolution; Fauchard's heirs

The entrepreneurialism of the 'dentiste sensible'Meanwhile, in Versailles . . .; 5: The Transient Smile Revolution; The lady artist and the denture-maker; Smiles under suspicion; Lavaterian twilight; 6: Beyond the Smile Revolution; False harbingers; Gothic grimaces; Disappearing dentistry . . .; . . . Vanishing smiles; Postscript: Towards the Twentieth-Century Smile Revolution; NOTES; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1; CHAPTER 2; CHAPTER 3; CHAPTER 4; CHAPTER 5; CHAPTER 6; POSTSCRIPT; Picture Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own



day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which prevailed in western Europe until then, smiling was quite literally frowned upon.Individuals were fatalistic about tooth loss, and their open mouths would often have been visually repulsive. Rules of con