From Paris to Pompeii : French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (319 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Neoclassical Pompeii -- Chapter Two: The Antiquarian Comes of Age -- Chapter Three: The Archaeological Turn -- Chapter Four: The Specular Past -- Chapter Five: Body Politics -- Chapter Six: Lost Worlds and the Archive -- Chapter Seven: The Uses of Archaeology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Through the iconic example of Pompeii, and the spell this city cast on the early nineteen-century French Romantic imagination, From Paris to Pompeii shows how an archaeological gaze arose in response to a secular anxiety of memory loss and helped define our modern relationship to history.
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Archaeology-France-History-19th century. Archaeology-History-19th century. Archaeology-Philosophy. Archaeology and history. Romanticism-France-History-19th century. Secularism-France-History-19th century. France-Intellectual life-19th century.