The Right Hand and the Left Hand of History

A Special Issue of Laterality

Chris McManus, Michael Nicholls, Giorgio Vallortigara

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English

Taylor & Francis Ltd
14 October 2024

Psychological theory & schools of thought; Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology

Series: Special Issues of Laterality

Left-handers have been described as ""a people without a history"". This special issue provides scholarly analyses of aspects of asymmetry in history, from the Renaissance to the 20th Century.

Lauren Harris presents three studies describing:

An 1811 American child-care manual for parents fearing, ""lest their children should be left-handed"";

Manuals on swordsmanship from the Renaissance onwards describing the ""accepted minority"" of left-handed swordsmen, a minority that still dominates the Olympics;

The enigmatic bias whereby parents use their left arm to carry babies;

Janet Snowman and Stephen Christman present two papers on left-handed musical geniuses:

William Crotch, the self-taught, 18th Century, musical prodigy, whose unconventional left-handed playing styles stimulate many questions about the asymmetries of stringed instruments; Jimi Hendrix, the 20th Century, left-handed, guitarist of whom Robert Krieger said, ""… he was just so different. He just came from such a left-field place.""

Chris McManus, Richard Rawles, James Moore and Matthew Freegard describe an early BBC TV programme presented in 1953 by Jacob Bronowski on right and left-handedness. In an early example of viewer participation, 6000 people sent postcards describing their handedness and also their perceptions of a ""mystery picture"", that was the duck-rabbit figure from Wittgenstein’s recently published Philosophical Investigations.

Chris McManus and Janet Snowman describe A left-handed compliment, a newly discovered lithograph by John Lewis Marks (ca. 1795-6 - ca. 1857-61). Given Marks’,""seeming love of vulgarity for its own sake"", there is probably an obscene sub-text reminiscent of a Donald McGill postcard.

Edited by: Chris McManus, Michael Nicholls, Giorgio Vallortigara
Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781032923406
ISBN 10: 1032923407
Series: Special Issues of Laterality
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 14 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chris McManus, Michael Nicholls, Giorgio Vallortigara