Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America

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Adams, John, 33, 248n26, 260n32 Addison, Joseph, 124, 245n31 African Americans, 25–26, 38–39, 42–44, 232–33; Cooper’s depiction of, 162–63, 262n2. See also race Agassiz, Louis, 242n6 Aikins, Janet, 15, 251n10 Allison, Archibald, 259n18, 265n27 American Indians, 39, 42–44, 43, 198–99, 242n5 Anthony, Mischelle, 105 anti-Chesterfieldianism, 18, 55, 59–72, 247n13. See also Chesterfieldianism Appleby, Joyce, 27, 246n2 aristocracy, 123, 155–58, 238n19, 272n35; of the brain, 216, 218–25; democracy and, 13, 239n21; of the face, 197–200, 213, 216–17, 221, 228–29; Jefferson on, 272n31 astrology, 27, 29 Austen, Jane, 263n20 Bache, William, 135–36 Bacon, Francis, 247n9 Balzac, Honoré de, 170 Barnes, Elizabeth, 77, 250n7, 253n31, 274n47 Barrell, John, 122, 131 Barry, James, 259n18 Baym, Nina, 261n2 Beattie, James, 39, 243n11 Bell, Charles, 259n18 Bell, Michael Davitt, 106 Bellion, Wendy, 15, 134 Bellis, Peter, 199 Benjamin, Walter, 113–14, 256n65 Bennett, John, 59, 205, 206, 274n54 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 188, 266n4 Bindman, David, 25–26 Blumin, Stuart, 13, 237n15 The Boarding School; or Lessons of a Preceptress to her Pupils (Foster), 82, 83, 119, 249n31, 250n2, 252n26 Bougeant, Guillaume, 29 Bourdieu, Pierre, 57, 235n6, 239n26, 275n61; on cultural capital, 255n50, 272n35, 272n40; on distinction, 237n14; on habitus, 253n35; on social space, 236n13 Boylston, Nicholas, 137, 138 Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 197; Cooper and, 166; Freneau and, 140; Modern Chivalry, 19, 67, 75, 121–22, 140–52; skepticism of, 261n44 Branagan, Thomas, 46 Brigham, David, 136 Brown, Charles Brockden, 82, 256n64; Ormond, 16, 76, 105–20, 187, 207 Brown, George Loring, 171 Brown, Gillian, 94, 254n42 Brown, William Hill, 191. See also The Power of Sympathy Brückner, Martin, 15 Bryson, Norman, 240n29 Burmeister, Hermann, 242n6 Burr, Aaron, 114, 136 Burroughs, Stephen, 5–10, 9 Burton, John, 59–61, 77 Bushman, Richard, 14, 56, 156, 239n21, 239n22 Calvert, Karin, 248n18 Camper, Petrus, 25, 241n2 capital, 74–76, 224; forms of, 235n6; habitus and, 253n35. See also cultural capital Carey, William P., 262n7 Carlyle, Thomas, 266n11 I n d e x Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. 312 Index Castiglia, Christopher, 254n38, 254n42 Chapone, Hester, 59 Chastellux, Marquis de, 148 Chesterfield, Earl of, 11, 247n9; Samuel Johnson on, 247n13; Letters of Advice to His Son, 17–18, 56–59; Principles of Politeness, 58–59 Chesterfieldianism, 19, 53, 57, 250n2; in Brackenridge, 142–43; in Brockden Brown, 108–9, 114–15; civility and, 75, 155–57, 249n29, 250n2; in Cooper, 172, 174; in Foster, 90–92; in Manvill, 103; in Melville, 206–7; reactions against, 18, 55, 59–72, 247n13; in Rowson, 89–90; in Tenney, 94 Child, Lydia Maria, 271n29 chirography, 222 chiromancy, 27, 29 Clark, Christopher, 11, 13, 157 class, 52–53, 236n13; emergence in U.S. of, 237n15; Amy Lang on, 239n25; novel’s relationship to, 256n68; portraiture and, 123, 137, 139, 257n6 Clubbe, John, 15 Cole, Thomas, 169 collective identity, 231 Common Sense School of Scottish philosophy, 243n11, 264n26 The Contrast (Tyler), 57, 64–69, 68, 260n31; advantages of reading in, 76–77; cultural capital in, 74; frontispiece for, 67–69, 68; stage history of, 249n29 Cooper, James Fenimore, 152, 157–85, 276n68; depiction of African Americans by, 162–63, 262n2; Gilmore on, 263n17, 264n21; on importance of books, 155, 166–67; on Irish Americans, 264n23; Melville and, 203, 210; physiognomy in, 158–59, 181–83, 187; pictorialism of, 155, 169–72, 175–77, 184–85; The Pioneers, 159–66, 170–72, 176, 180–84, 182; Precaution, 20, 69–70, 158–67, 170–78, 180–84, 203, 210; The Spy, 159–66, 169–72, 177, 180–81; Tales for Fifteen, 20, 82–83, 158–59, 166, 172, 177–80 Copley, John Singleton, 137, 138, 258n7, 259n28 The Coquette (Foster), 18, 19, 57, 69, 75, 90–94, 99, 229; Cooper and, 159, 163; criticisms of novels in, 83–84, 86; portraits in, 211, 212 Crain, Patricia, 15, 77 crainology, 26, 242n6 Craven, Wayne, 257n6 Crawford, William, 60–61, 148 cultural capital, 74–76, 272n35; of Chesterfieldian civility, 75, 155–57, 249n29, 250n2; forms of, 255n50; novels and, 240n30; social capital and, 75, 272n40. See also capital daguerreotypes, 113, 158, 220; Douglass on, 231; Melville on, 186; portraiture versus, 223, 271n29 Dain, Bruce, 26, 242n4, 257n4, 263n9 Dante Alighieri, 206–7 Darwin, Erasmus, 77, 78 Davidson, Cathy, 67, 74 Davies, Kate, 248n21 Declaration of Independence, 56 Delaplaine, Joseph, 122, 131, 132, 144, 145 Delaporte, François, 26, 32 Della Porta, Giambattista, 30 Dickens, Charles, 270n20...