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July 6, 2021
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Tyne Daile Sumner, « Geoffrey Chaucer, Taylor Swift and Scott Morrison: From Smiling to Smirking », Literature and the Face: A Critical History, ID : 10670/1.fdxeno
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In the song “Happiness”, from her 2020 release Evermore, Taylor Swift articulates the break-down of a relationship. She asks a bitter rhetorical question: Tell me, when did your winning smileBegin to look like a smirk? In one of those uncanny moments when popular culture addresses our historical research interests, these lyrics jumped out at me. I have been working on the history of the gesture we know as smiling. Curiously, this history intersects and overlaps with the very different t...