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Item Number: 118923
Title: Pompeii in the Public Imagination from its Rediscovery to Today
Author: Hales, Shelley ; Joanna Paul (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780199569366
Description: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 24cm., hardcover, 440pp., 52 illus. Contents: 1. Introduction: Ruins and Reconstructions , Shelley Hales & Joanna Paul 2. A Tamed 'desire for images': Goethe's Repeated Approaches to Pompeii , Thorsten Fitzon 3. Ruined Waking Thoughts: William Beckford as a Visitor to Pompeii , Constanze Baum 4. Making History: Pliny's Letters to Tacitus and Angelica Kauffman's `Pliny and his Mother at Misenum' , Victoria C. Gardner Coates 5. Site, Sight, and Symbol: Pompeii and Vesuvius in `Corinne, or Italy' , Barbara Witucki 6. Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii: Recreating the City , Stephen Harrison 7. Objects of Affection: Necromantic Pathos in Bulwer-Lytton's City of the Dead , Meilee D. Bridges 8. Delusion and Dream in Theophile Gautier's `Arria Marcella: Souvenir de Pompei' , Genevieve Liveley 9. Archaeology Meets Fantasy: Chasseriau's Pompeii in Nineteenth-Century Paris , Sarah Betzer 10. Italian Classical Revival Painters and the 'Southern Question' , Luna Figurelli 11. Cities of the Dead , Shelley Hales 12. Christians and Jews at Pompeii in Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction , Eric Moormann 13. Rocks, Ghosts and Footprints: Freudian Archaeology , Daniel Orrells 14. On the Edge of the Volcano: `The Last Days of Pompeii' in the Early American Republic , Margaret Malamud 15. Experiencing The Last Days of Pompeii in Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia , Jon L. Seydl 16. In Search of Lost Time and Pompeii , Francesca Spiegel 17. Excavation Photographs and the Imagining of Pompeii's Streets: Vittorio Spinazzola and the Via dell'Abbondanza , Jeremy Hartnett 18. The Getty Villa: Art, Architecture, and Aristocratic Self-Fashioning in the Mid-Twentieth Century , Kenneth Lapatin 19. Pompeii in Roberto Rossellini's `Journey to Italy' , Matthew Fox 20. The Censorship Myth and the Secret Museum , Kate Fisher & Rebecca Langlands 21. Modern Tourists, Ancient Sexualities: Looking at Looking in Pompeii's Brothel and the Secret Cabinet , Sarah Levin-Richardson 22. Writing Pompeii: An Interview with Robert Harris 23. Pompeii, the Holocaust, and World War Two , Joanna Paul 24. Pompeii and the Cambridge Latin Course 25. Ruins and Forgetfulness: The Case of Herculaneum , Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. (Classical Presences)
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