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The Smile Revolution : In Eighteenth-Century Paris.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (246 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191024849
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Smile RevolutionDDC classification:
  • 944
LOC classification:
  • DC711.J664 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: The story of how we learned to smile. A unique and untold story about a facial expression at the heart of modern western civilization.
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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.

The story of how we learned to smile. A unique and untold story about a facial expression at the heart of modern western civilization.

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