Finck H. T. (1887/1902/2019). Romantic love and personal beauty: Their development, causal relations, historical and national peculiarities. Macmillan and Co (Originally published in 1887 with new edition in 1902 by Macmillan).
Recently reprinted by Good Press.
Finck, H. T. (2019). Romantic love and personal beauty: Their development, causal relations, historic and national peculiarities. Good Press.
The book covers a wide range of topics about romantic love and personal beauty. The contents of the book are below for your perusing. It is amazing how a wide range of topics are covered and how much knowledge the scholars of that time knew about this subject.
CONTENTS PAGE
EVOLUTION OF ROMANTIC LOVE 1
COSMIC ATTRACTION AND CHEMICAL AFFINITIES 3
FLOWER LOVE AND BEAUTY 7
IMPERSONAL AFFECTION 11
PERSONAL AFFECTIONS 16
I. Love for Animals 16
II. Maternal Love 19
III. Paternal Love 20
IV. Filial Love 22
V. Brotherly and Sisterly Love 23
VI. Friendship 24
VII. Romantic Love 26
OVERTONES OF LOVE 29
I. Individual Preference 30
II. Monopoly or Exclusiveness 30
III. Jealousy 30
IV. Coyness 30
V. Gallantry 31
VI. Self-Sacrifice 31
VII. Sympathy 31
VIII. Pride of Conquest and Possession 31
IX. Emotional Hyperbole 32
X. Mixed Moods 32
XI. Admiration of Personal Beauty 32
Herbert Spencer on Love 33
LOVE AMONG ANIMALS 33
Courtship 37
(a) Jealousy 39
(b) Coyness 40
(c) Individual Preference 42
(d) Personal Beauty and Sexual Selection 43
(1) Protective Colours 48
ii (2) Warning Colours 48
(3) Typical Colours 48
(4) Sexual Colours 49
Love Charms and Love Calls 50
Love Dances and Display 52
LOVE AMONG SAVAGES 54
Strangers to Love 54
Primitive Courtship 56
(1) Capture 56
(2) Purchase 58
(3) Service 58
Individual Preference 59
Personal Beauty and Sexual Selection 60
Jealousy and Polygamy 62
Monopoly and Monogamy 63
Primitive Coyness 64
Can American Negroes Love? 66
HISTORY OF LOVE 67
LOVE IN EGYPT 67
ANCIENT HEBREW LOVE 69
ANCIENT ARYAN LOVE 72
Hindoo Love Maxims 73
GREEK LOVE 75
Family Affection 75
No Love Stories 76
Woman’s Position 77
Chaperonage versus Courtship 77
Plato on Courtship 78
Parental versus Lovers’ Choice 78
The Hetæræ 79
Platonic Love 80
Sappho and Female Friendship 81
Greek Beauty 83
Cupid’s Arrows 84
Origin of Love 85
ROMAN LOVE 86
Woman’s Position 86
No Wooing and Choice 87
Virgil, Dryden, and Scott 89
Ovid’s Art of Making Love 90
Birth of Gallantry 91
MEDIÆVAL LOVE 92
Celibacy versus Marriage 92
Woman’s Lowest Degradation 93
iii Negation of Feminine Choice 95
Christianity and Love 97
Chivalry—Militant and Comic 98
Chivalry—Poetic 101
(a) French Troubadours 102
(b) German Minnesingers 103
Female Culture 105
Personal Beauty 107
Spenser on Love 108
Dante and Shakspere 109
MODERN LOVE 111
A Biologic Test 111
Venus, Plutus, and Minerva 112
Leading Motives 114
Modern Coyness 114
(1) An Echo of Capture 114
(2) Maiden versus Wife 115
(3) Modesty 115
(4) Cunning to be Strange 115
(5) Procrastination 116
Goldsmith on Love 116
Disadvantages of Coyness 118
Coyness lessens Woman’s Love 120
Masculine versus Feminine Love 120
Flirtation and Coquetry 122
Flirtation versus Coyness 123
Modern Courtship 125
Modern Jealousy 127
Lover’s Jealousy 129
Retrospective and Prospective Jealousy 131
Jealousy and Beauty 133
Monopoly or Exclusiveness 133
True Love is Transient 135
Is First Love Best? 136
Heine on First Love 137
First Love is not Best 137
Pride and Vanity 141
Coquetry 142
Love and Rank 143
Special Sympathy 145
How Love Intensifies Emotions 146
Development of Sympathy 147
Pity and Love 150
Love at First Sight 152
iv Intellect and Love 154
Gallantry and Self-Sacrifice 157
Active and Passive Desire to Please 159
Feminine Devotion 160
Emotional Hyperbole 162
Mixed Moods and Paradoxes 166
Lunatic, Lover, and Poet 172
Individual Preference 173
Sexual Divergence 174
Making Woman Masculine 175
Love and Culture 176
Personal Beauty 177
Feminine Beauty in Masculine Eyes 177
Masculine Beauty in Feminine Eyes 178
CONJUGAL AFFECTION AND ROMANTIC LOVE 180
Romance in Conjugal Love 184
Marriages of Reason or Love Matches? 187
Marriage Hints 189
OLD MAIDS 190
BACHELORS 194
GENIUS AND MARRIAGE 197
GENIUS AND LOVE 201
GENIUS IN LOVE 204
(1) Precocity 204
(2) Ardour 207
(3) Fickleness 210
(4) Multiplicity 213
(5) Fictitiousness 215
INSANITY AND LOVE 218
Analogies 218
Erotomania, or Real Love-Sickness 222
THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE 223
I. Words 223
II. Facial Expression 224
III. Caresses 225
KISSING—PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE 227
Among Animals 227
Among Savages 228
Origin of Kissing 229
Ancient Kisses 232
Mediæval Kisses 233
Modern Kisses 234
Love Kisses 235
How to Kiss 237
vHOW TO WIN LOVE 238
Brass Buttons 238
Confidence and Boldness 239
Pleasant Associations 240
Perseverance 241
Feigned Indifference 241
Compliments 244
Love Letters 246
Love Charms for Women 250
Proposing 253
Diagnosis, or Signs of Love 254
HOW TO CURE LOVE 255
Absence 256
Travel 257
Employment 257
Married Misery 257
Feminine Inferiority 260
Focussing Her Faults 262
Reason versus Passion 263
Love versus Love 264
Prognosis, or Chances of Recovery 265
NATIONALITY AND LOVE 265
French Love 266
Italian Love 274
Spanish Love 277
German Love 280
English Love 288
American Love 294
SCHOPENHAUER’S THEORY OF LOVE 301
Love is an Illusion 302
Individuals Sacrificed to the Species 302
Sources of Love 303
(1) Physical Beauty 303
(2) Psychic Traits 304
(3) Complementary Qualities 305
FOUR SOURCES OF BEAUTY 310
I. Health 310
Greek Beauty 313
Mediæval Ugliness 314
Modern Hygiene 316
II. Crossing 318
III. Romantic Love 322
IV. Mental Refinement 324
EVOLUTION OF TASTE 327
vi Savage Notions of Beauty 327
Non-Æsthetic “Ornamentation” 328
Personal Beauty as a Fine Art 329
Negative Tests of Beauty 331
(a) Animals 331
(b) Savages 333
(c) Degraded Classes 333
(d) Age and Decrepitude 334
(e) Disease 334
Positive Tests of Beauty 338
(a) Symmetry 338
(b) Gradation 339
(c) Curvature 341
Masculine and Feminine Beauty 342
(d) Delicacy 343
(e) Smoothness 344
(f) Lustre and Colour 345
(g) Expression, Variety, Individuality 348
THE FEET 351
Size 351
Fashionable Ugliness 352
Tests of Beauty 354
A Graceful Gait 357
Evolution of the Great Toe 359
National Peculiarities 361
Beautifying Hygiene 362
Dancing and Grace 364
Dancing and Courtship 365
Evolution of Dance Music 367
The Dance of Love 369
Ballet-Dancing 370
THE LOWER LIMBS 371
Muscular Development 371
Beautifying Exercise 372
Fashionable Ugliness 375
The Crinoline Craze 376
THE WAIST 378
The Beauty-Curve 378
The Wasp-Waist Mania 379
Hygienic Disadvantages 380
Æsthetic Disadvantages 381
Corpulence and Leanness 382
The Fashion Fetish Analysed 386
Individualism versus Fashion 389
vii Masculine Fashions 391
CHEST AND BOSOM 394
Feminine Beauty 394
Masculine Beauty 397
Magic Effect of Deep Breathing 397
A Moral Question 399
NECK AND SHOULDER 400
ARM AND HAND 402
Evolution and Sexual Differences 402
Calisthenics and Massage 403
The Second Face 405
Finger Nails 406
Manicure Secrets 407
JAW, CHIN, AND MOUTH 408
Hands versus Jaws 408
Dimples in the Chin 412
Refined Lips 413
Cosmetic Hints 421
THE CHEEKS 423
High Cheek Bones 423
Colour and Blushes 425
THE EARS 429
A Useless Ornament 429
Cosmetics and Fashion 431
Physiognomic Vagaries 433
Noise and Civilisation 434
A Musical Voice 435
THE NOSE 436
Size and Shape 436
Evolution of the Nose 438
Greek and Hebrew Noses 440
Fashion and Cosmetic Surgery 443
Nose-Breathing and Health 445
Cosmetic Value of Odours 446
THE FOREHEAD 448
Beauty and Brain 448
Fashionable Deformity 450
Wrinkles 451
THE COMPLEXION 453
White versus Black 453
Cosmetic Hints 460
Freckles and Sunshine 462
THE EYES 464
Colour 465
viii Lustre 469
Form 472
Expression 475
(a) Lustre 476
(b) Colour of Iris 478
(c) Movements of the Iris 479
(d) ” ” Eyeball 480
(e) ” ” Eyelids 482
(f) ” ” Eyebrows 485
Cosmetic Hints 485
THE HAIR 486
Cause of Man’s Nudity 486
Beards and Moustaches 489
Baldness and Depilatories 492
Æsthetic Value of Hair 494
BRUNETTE AND BLONDE 496
Blonde versus Brunette 496
Brunette versus Blonde 498
Why Cupid Favours Brunettes 499
NATIONALITY AND BEAUTY 505
FRENCH BEAUTY 506
ITALIAN BEAUTY 511
SPANISH BEAUTY 515
GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN BEAUTY 522
ENGLISH BEAUTY 528
AMERICAN BEAUTY 535