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TEETH IN VICTORIAN ART

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2002

David Sonstroem
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
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Abstract

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IF JOURNAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ERAS reflect their times truly, Victorians and their predecessors did not manage their faces as we do ours. We of the twenty-first century grin or grimace without restraint, but the Victorians checked the impulse to show their teeth. When we engage in an unguarded smile, our show of teeth is intended and taken to mean merely that we are in good spirits or good company. Pictorial evidence indicates that when the Victorians did likewise, the expression held other meaning.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press