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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goldhill, Simon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
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
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