Romantic Love and Personal Beauty / Their development, causal relations, historic and national peculiarities
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THEIR
DEVELOPMENT, CAUSAL RELATIONS,
HISTORIC AND NATIONAL PECULIARITIES
HENRY T. FINCK
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
Henry T. Finck
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CONTENTS
EVOLUTION OF ROMANTIC LOVE
COSMIC ATTRACTION AND CHEMICAL AFFINITIES
FLOWER LOVE AND BEAUTY
IMPERSONAL AFFECTION
PERSONAL AFFECTIONS
I.—LOVE FOR ANIMALS
II.—MATERNAL LOVE
III.—PATERNAL LOVE
IV.—FILIAL LOVE
V.—BROTHERLY AND SISTERLY LOVE
VI.—FRIENDSHIP
VII.—ROMANTIC LOVE
OVERTONES OF ROMANTIC LOVE
I.—INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE
II.—MONOPOLY OR EXCLUSIVENESS
III.—JEALOUSY
IV.—COYNESS
V.—GALLANTRY
VI.—SELF-SACRIFICE
VII.—SYMPATHY
VIII.—PRIDE OF CONQUEST AND POSSESSION
IX.—EMOTIONAL HYPERBOLE
X.—MIXED MOODS—MAJOR AND MINOR
XI.—ADMIRATION OF PERSONAL BEAUTY
HERBERT SPENCER ON LOVE
LOVE AMONG ANIMALS
COURTSHIP
LOVE-CHARMS AND LOVE-CALLS
LOVE-DANCES AND DISPLAY
LOVE AMONG SAVAGES
STRANGERS TO LOVE
PRIMITIVE COURTSHIP
INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE
PERSONAL BEAUTY AND SEXUAL SELECTION
JEALOUSY AND POLYGAMY
MONOPOLY AND MONOGAMY
PRIMITIVE COYNESS
CAN AMERICAN NEGROES LOVE?
HISTORY OF LOVE
LOVE IN EGYPT
ANCIENT HEBREW LOVE
ANCIENT ARYAN LOVE
HINDOO LOVE MAXIMS
GREEK LOVE
FAMILY AFFECTIONS
NO LOVE-STORIES
WOMAN’S POSITION
PLATO ON COURTSHIP
THE HETÆRÆ
PLATONIC LOVE
SAPPHO AND FEMALE FRIENDSHIP
GREEK BEAUTY
CUPID’S ARROWS
ORIGIN OF LOVE
ROMAN LOVE
WOMAN’S POSITION
NO WOOING AND CHOICE
VIRGIL, DRYDEN, AND SCOTT
OVID’S ART OF MAKING LOVE
BIRTH OF GALLANTRY
MEDIÆVAL LOVE
WOMAN’S LOWEST DEGRADATION
NEGATION OF FEMININE CHOICE
CHRISTIANITY AND LOVE
CHIVALRY—MILITANT AND COMIC
CHIVALRY—POETIC
FEMALE CULTURE
PERSONAL BEAUTY
SPENSER ON LOVE
DANTE AND SHAKSPERE
MODERN LOVE
A BIOLOGIC TEST
VENUS, PLUTUS, AND MINERVA
LEADING MOTIVES
MODERN COYNESS
MODERN JEALOUSY
MONOPOLY OR EXCLUSIVENESS
PRIDE AND VANITY
SPECIAL SYMPATHY
GALLANTRY AND SELF-SACRIFICE
EMOTIONAL HYPERBOLE
MIXED MOODS AND PARADOXES
INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE
PERSONAL BEAUTY
CONJUGAL AFFECTION AND ROMANTIC LOVE
ROMANCE IN CONJUGAL LOVE
MARRIAGES OF REASON OR LOVE-MATCHES?
MARRIAGE HINTS
OLD MAIDS
BACHELORS
GENIUS AND MARRIAGE
GENIUS AND LOVE
GENIUS IN LOVE
I.—PRECOCITY
II.—ARDOUR
III.—FICKLENESS
IV.—MULTIPLICITY
V.—FICTITIOUSNESS
INSANITY AND LOVE
ANALOGIES
EROTOMANIA, OR REAL LOVE-SICKNESS
THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE
I.—WORDS
II.-FACIAL EXPRESSION,
III.—CARESSES
KISSING—PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
AMONG ANIMALS
AMONG SAVAGES
THE ORIGIN OF KISSING
ANCIENT KISSES
MEDIÆVAL KISSES
MODERN KISSES
LOVE-KISSES
HOW TO KISS
HOW TO WIN LOVE
BRASS BUTTONS
CONFIDENCE AND BOLDNESS
PLEASANT ASSOCIATIONS
PERSEVERANCE
FEIGNED INDIFFERENCE
COMPLIMENTS
LOVE-LETTERS
LOVE-CHARMS FOR WOMEN
PROPOSING
DIAGNOSIS OR SIGNS OF LOVE
HOW TO CURE LOVE
ABSENCE
TRAVEL
EMPLOYMENT
MARRIED MISERY
FEMININE INFERIORITY
FOCUSSING HER FAULTS
PROGNOSIS OR CHANCES OF RECOVERY
NATIONALITY AND LOVE
FRENCH LOVE
ITALIAN LOVE
SPANISH LOVE
GERMAN LOVE
ENGLISH LOVE
AMERICAN LOVE
SCHOPENHAUER’S THEORY OF LOVE
LOVE IS AN ILLUSION
INDIVIDUALS SACRIFICED TO THE SPECIES
SOURCES OF LOVE
FOUR SOURCES OF BEAUTY
I.—HEALTH
II.—CROSSING
III.—ROMANTIC LOVE
IV.—MENTAL REFINEMENT
EVOLUTION OF TASTE
SAVAGE NOTIONS OF BEAUTY
NON-ÆSTHETIC ORNAMENTATION
PERSONAL BEAUTY AS A FINE ART
NEGATIVE TESTS OF BEAUTY
POSITIVE TESTS OF BEAUTY
THE FEET
SIZE
FASHIONABLE UGLINESS
TESTS OF BEAUTY
A GRACEFUL GAIT
EVOLUTION OF THE GREAT TOE
NATIONAL DIFFERENCES
BEAUTIFYING HYGIENE
DANCING AND GRACE
DANCING AND COURTSHIP
EVOLUTION OF DANCE MUSIC
THE DANCE OF LOVE
BALLET-DANCING
THE LOWER LIMBS
MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT
BEAUTIFYING EXERCISE
FASHIONABLE UGLINESS
THE CRINOLINE CRAZE
THE WAIST
THE BEAUTY CURVE
THE WASP-WAIST MANIA
CORPULENCE AND LEANNESS
THE FASHION FETISH ANALYSED
MASCULINE FASHIONS
CHEST AND BOSOM
FEMININE BEAUTY
MASCULINE BEAUTY
MAGIC EFFECT OF DEEP BREATHING
A MORAL QUESTION
NECK AND SHOULDER
ARM AND HAND
EVOLUTION AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCES
CALISTHENICS AND MASSAGE
THE “SECOND FACE”
FINGER-NAILS
MANICURE SECRETS
JAW, CHIN, AND MOUTH
DIMPLES IN THE CHIN
REFINED LIPS
COSMETIC HINTS
THE CHEEKS
HIGH CHEEK-BONES
COLOUR AND BLUSHES
THE EARS
A USELESS ORNAMENT
COSMETICS AND FASHION
PHYSIOGNOMIC VAGARIES
NOISE AND CIVILISATION
A MUSICAL VOICE
THE NOSE
SHAPE AND SIZE
EVOLUTION OF THE NOSE
GREEK AND HEBREW NOSES
FASHION AND COSMETIC SURGERY
NOSE-BREATHING AND HEALTH
COSMETIC VALUE OF ODOURS
THE FOREHEAD
BEAUTY AND BRAIN
FASHIONABLE DEFORMITY
WRINKLES
THE COMPLEXION
COSMETIC HINTS
FRECKLES AND SUNSHINE
THE EYES
COLOUR
LUSTRE
FORM
EXPRESSION
COSMETIC HINTS
THE HAIR
CAUSE OF MAN’S NUDITY
BEARDS AND MOUSTACHES
BALDNESS AND DEPILATORIES
BRUNETTE AND BLONDE
WHY CUPID FAVOURS BRUNETTES
NATIONALITY AND BEAUTY
FRENCH BEAUTY
ITALIAN BEAUTY
SPANISH BEAUTY
GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN BEAUTY
ENGLISH BEAUTY
AMERICAN BEAUTY
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