1. Visual Humanities. Typisierungen des Menschen um 1900.
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Holst, Nina
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PSYCHOLOGICAL typologies , *STEREOTYPES , *SOCIAL types , *PHYSIOGNOMY in literature , *HISTORY of antisemitism , *CONFERENCES & conventions ,EUROPEAN history, 1871-1918 - Abstract
The article reports on the workshop "Visual Humanities: Typisierungen des Menschen um 1900" (Typologies of Human Beings Around 1900), held in Frankfurt, Germany, on February 18-19, 2011. The presentations addressed various aspects of stereotyping and the construction of social types in late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe, including illustrations for the works of German adventure story author Karl May, discourses about physiognomy in late Victorian literature, and antisemitism.
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- 2011