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Pompeii in the public imagination from its rediscovery to today /
A collection of essays exploring the different ways in which the ruined city of Pompeii has been a major source of inspiration to Western imaginations. Creative and popular, as well as scholarly approaches are covered, including an interview with the novelist Robert Harris.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Classical presences.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : ruins and reconstructions / Shelley Hales and Joanna Paul
- A tamed 'desire for images' : Goethe's repeated approaches to Pompeii / Thorsten Fitzon
- Ruined waking thoughts : William Beckford as a visitor to Pompeii / Constanze Baum
- Making history : Pliny's letters to Tacitus and Angelica Kauffmann's Pliny the Younger and his mother at Misenum / Victoria C. Gardner Coates
- Site, sight, and symbol : Pompeii and Vesuvius in Corinne, or Italy / Barbara Witucki
- Bulwer-Lytton's The last days of Pompeii : re-creating the city / Stephen Harrison
- Objects of affection : necromantic pathos in Bulwer-Lytton's city of the dead / Meilee D. Bridges
- Delusion and dream in Théophile Gautier's Arria Marcella : Souvenir de Pompéi / Genevieve Liveley
- Archaeology meets fantasy : Chassériau's Pompeii in nineteenth-century Paris / Sarah Betzer
- Italian classical-revival painters and the 'southern question' / Luna Figurelli
- Cities of the dead / Shelley Hales
- Christians and Jews at Pompeii in late nineteenth-century fiction / Eric M. Moormann
- Rocks, ghosts, and footprints : Freudian archaeology / Daniel Orrells
- On the edge of the volcano : The last days of Pompeii in the early American republic / Margaret Malamud
- Experiencing the last days of Pompeii in late nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Jon L. Seydl
- In search of lost time and Pompeii / Francesca Spiegel
- Evacuation photographs and the imagining of Pompeii's streets : Vittorio Spinazzola and the Via dell'Abbondanza / Jeremy Hartnett
- The Getty villa : art architecture, and aristocratic self-fashioning in the mid-twentieth century / Kenneth Lapatin
- Pompeii in Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy / Matthew Fox
- The censorship myth and the secret museum / Kate Fisher and Rebecca Langlands
- Modern tourists, ancient sexualities : looking at looking in Pompeii's brothel and secret cabinet / Sarah Levin-Richardson
- Writing Pompeii : an interview with Robert Harris
- Pompeii, the Holocaust, and the Second World War / Joanna Paul
- Pompeii and the Cambridge Latin course
- Ruins and forgetfulness : the case of Herculaneum / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.