CHARLES DARWIN*1873*EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN & ANIMALS:PSYCHOLOGY/PHOTO For Sale

THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS

IN MAN AND ANIMALS

BY

CHARLES DARWIN

(1st EDITION)

TENTH THOUSAND

EDITED BY FRANCIS DARWIN

with photographic and other illustrations

LONDON, JOHN MURRAY

1873

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BOOK DESCRIPTION:Original green publisher\'s cloth binding. viii, 394pp, index. 7 photographic plates, as called for. Many other illustrations. Freeman F1144. 32pp of inserted adverts dated January 1883.

CONDITION: FINE. The original cloth is very clean, some minor marks and minor wear to extremities. Original endpapers just starting. Binding tight and secure. Some minor foxing, but most pages very clean and bright. All plates in place as called for and very clean.A splendid, bright and unrestored copy. This is the variant issue of the tenth thousand in which there are no folds in any of the plates.

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The Expression of the Emotions was published thirteen years after On the Origin of Species and alongside his 1871 book The Descent of Man, it is Darwin\'s main consideration of human origins. In this book, Darwin seeks to trace the animal origins of human characteristics, such as the pursing of the lips in concentration and the tightening of the muscles around the eyes in anger and efforts of memory. Darwin sought out the opinions of some eminent British psychiatrists, notably James Crichton-Browne, in the preparation of the book which forms Darwin\'s main contribution to psychology. The Expression of the Emotions is also an important landmark in the history of book illustration:

When first published in 1872 thiswas to be one of the first books with photographs ever published, with seven heliotype plates (see photos below of their reproduction in this edition). Darwin\'s publisher warned that this aspect of thepublication\"would poke a terrible hole in the profits\".

The published book assembled illustrations rather like a Victorian family album, with engravings of the Darwin family\'s domestic pets by the zoological illustrator T. W. Wood, Mr. Riviere and Mr. A. May, portraits by the Swedish photographer Oscar Rejlander (1813–1875), anatomical diagrams by Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842) and Friedrich Henle (1809–1885), and illustrational quotations from the Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine – Analyse Electro-Physiologique de L\'Expression des Passions (1862) by the French neurologist Guillaume-Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne (1806–1875).

Darwin received dozens of photographs of psychiatric patients from James Crichton-Browne, but included in the book only one engraving (by James Davis Cooper) based on these illustrations – sent on 6 June 1870 (along with Darwin\'s copy of Duchenne) (Darwin Correspondence Project: Letter 7220) – and this – Figure 19, page 296 – was of a patient (with erection of her hair) under the care of Dr James Gilchrist at the Southern Counties Asylum, the public wing of the (Crichton Royal) in Dumfries.

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CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION Pages 1-27CHAP. I.—GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSION.
The three chief principles stated—The first principle—Serviceable actions become habitual in association with certain states of the mind, and are performed whether or not of service in each particular case—The force of habit—Inheritance—Associated habitual movements in man—Reflex actions—Passage of habits into reflex actions—Associated habitual movements in the lower animals—Concluding remarks 28-51CHAP. II.—GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSION—continued.
The Principle of Antithesis—Instances in the dog and cat—Origin of the principle—Conventional signs—The principle of antithesis has not arisen from opposite actions being consciously performed under opposite impulses 52-68CHAP. III.—GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSION—
concluded.
The principle of the direct action of the excited nervous system on the body, independently of the will and in part of habit—Change of colour in the hair—Trembling of the muscles—Modified secretions—Perspiration—Expression of extreme pain—Of rage, great joy, and terror—Contrast between the emotions which cause and do not cause expressive movements—Exciting and depressing states of the mind—Summary 69-87CHAP. IV.—MEANS OF EXPRESSION IN ANIMALS.
The emission of sounds—Vocal sounds—Sounds otherwise produced—Erection of the dermal appendages, hairs, feathers, &c ., under the emotions of anger and terror—The drawing back of the ears as a preparation for fighting, and as an expression of anger—Erection of the ears and raising the head, a sign of attention 88-121[page] viCHAP. V.—SPECIAL EXPRESSIONS OF ANIMALS.
The Dog, various expressive movements their expression of joy and affection—Of pain—Anger—Astonishment and terror Pages 122-153CHAP. VI.—SPECIAL EXPRESSIONS OF MAN: SUFFERING
AND WEEPING.
The screaming and weeping of infants—Form of features—Age at which weeping commences—The effects of habitual restraint on weeping—Sobbing—Cause of the contraction of the muscles round the eyes during screaming—Cause of the secretion of tears 154-185CHAP. VII.—LOW SPIRITS, ANXIETY, GRIEF, DEJECTION,
DESPAIR.
General effect of grief on the system—Obliquity of the eyebrows under suffering—On the cause of the obliquity of the eyebrows—On the depression of the corners of the mouth 186-206CHAP. VIII.—JOY, HIGH SPIRITS, LOVE, TENDER FEELINGS,
DEVOTION.
Laughter primarily the expression of joy—Ludicrous ideas—Movements of the features during laughter—Nature of the sound produced—The secretion of tears during loud laughter—Gradation from loud laughter to gentle smiling—High spirits—The expression of love—Tender feelings—Devotion 207-231CHAP. act of frowning—Reflection with an effort or with the perception of something difficult or disagreeable—Abstracted and pouting—Decision or determination—The firm closure of the mouth 232-248[page] viiCHAP. X.—HATRED AND ANGER.
Hatred—Rage, effects of, on the system—Uncovering of the teeth—Rage in the insane—Anger and indignation—As expressed by the various races of man—Sneering and defiance—The uncovering of the canine tooth on one side of the face Pages 249-264CHAP. NEGATION.
Contempt, scorn and disdain, variously expressed—Derisive smile—Gestures expressive of contempt—Disgust—Guilt, deceit, pride, &c .—Helplessness or the shoulders common to most of the races of man—Signs of affirmation and negation 265-292CHAP. astonishment—Elevation of the eyebrows—Opening the mouth—Protrusion of the lips—Gestures accompanying of the hair—Contraction of the platysma muscle—Dilation of the pupils—Horror—Conclusion 293-327CHAP. BLUSHING.
Nature of a blush—Inheritance—The parts of the body most affected—Blushing in the various races of man—Accompanying gestures—Confusion of mind—Causes of blushing—Self-attention, the fundamental element—Shyness—Shame, from broken moral laws and conventional rules—Modesty—Theory of blushing—Recapitulation 328-367CHAP. XIV.—CONCLUDING REMARKS AND SUMMARY.
The three leading principles which have determined the chief movements of expression—Their inheritance—On the part which the will and intention have played in the acquirement of various expressions—The instinctive recognition of expression—The bearing of our subject on the specific unity of the races of man—On the successive acquirement of various expressions by the progenitors of man—The importance of expression—Conclusion 368-387[page] viii
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
FIG. PAGE
1. Diagram of the muscles of the face, from Sir C. Bell 24
2. Diagram of the muscles of the face, from Henle 24
3. Diagram of the muscles of the face, from Henle 25
4. Small dog watching a cat on a table 46
5. Dog approaching another dog with hostile intentions 54
6. Dog in a humble and affectionate frame of mind 55
7. Half-bred shepherd dog 56
8. Dog caressing his master 57
9. Cat, savage, and prepared to fight 60
10. Cat in an affectionate frame of mind 61
11. Sound-producing quills from the tail of the porcupine 99
12. Hen driving away a dog from her chickens 104
13. Swan driving away an intruder 105
14. Head of snarling dog 124
15. Cat terrified at a dog 135
16. Cynopithecus niger, in a placid condition 143
17. The same, when pleased by being caressed 143
18. Chimpanzee disappointed and sulky 148
19. Photograph of an insane woman 314
20. Terror 317
21. Horror and agony 323
Plate I. to face page 155
Plate II. to face page 188
Plate III. to face page 211
Plate VI. to face page 277
Plate V. to face page 266
Plate VII. to face page 316
Plate IV. to face page 261