From Paris to Pompeii : : French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology / / Göran Blix.
In the early nineteenth century, as amateur archaeologists excavated Pompeii, Egypt, Assyria, and the first prehistoric sites, a myth arose of archaeology as a magical science capable of unearthing and reconstructing worlds thought to be irretrievably lost. This timely myth provided an urgent antido...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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