The buried life of things : how objects made history in nineteenth-century Britain /

"Simon Goldhill offers a fresh and exciting perspective on how the Victorians used material culture to express their sense of the past in an age of progress, especially the biblical past and the past of classical antiquity. From Pompeian skulls on a writer's desk, to religious paraphernali...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldhill, Simon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Material culture > Great Britain > History.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > Great Britain > History.
Culture matérielle > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects
Material culture
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the buried life of things
  • 1. A writer's things: Edward Bulwer Lytton and the archaeological gaze
  • 2. When things matter: religion and the physical world
  • 3. Imperial landscapes, the biblical gaze, and techniques of the photo album: capturing the real in Jerusalem and the holy land
  • 4. Building history: a mandate coda
  • 5. Restoration
  • Coda: a final dig.

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