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



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Autore: Jones Colin Visualizza persona
Titolo: The smile revolution : in eighteenth century Paris / / Colin Jones Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
Disciplina: 911.44361
Soggetto geografico: Paris (France) Antiquities
Paris (France) Ethnic relations
Paris (France) History
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
Titolo autorizzato: The smile revolution  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-102485-6
0-19-102484-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910818042303321
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