Abstract
When Charles Darwin first published The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals his purpose was to show continuity in emotional expression across species and thereby strengthen his theory of evolution. Surrounding the book’s illustrations, therefore, one finds descriptions of animal emotion designed to elicit our recognition as members of a universal audience. In this case our charm instantiates Darwin’s argument for emotional continuity across species at the same time that we as members of a historical audience may miss the sly provocation of contemporaries with which the passage concludes (fig. 1).
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