Description
Book SynopsisThrough the iconic example of Pompeii, and the spell this city cast on the early nineteen-century French Romantic imagination, From Paris to Pompeii shows how an archaeological gaze arose in response to a secular anxiety of memory loss and helped define our modern relationship to history.
Trade Review"A rich, well-informed, and engaging analysis that combines the aesthetic, the epistemological, the historical, and the political in a way that is both original and strong. This book opens up new perspectives on frequently studied authors, and it makes very useful associations between very different levels of literary and scientific productions." * Jacques Neefs, The Johns Hopkins University and Paris 8 Université de Vincennes à Saint-Denis *
"Enterprising and intriguing." *
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Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Introduction
Neoclassical Pompeii
1. The Antiquarian Comes of Age
2. The Archaeological Turn
3. The Specular Past
4. Body Politics
5. Lost Worlds and the Archive
6. The Uses of Archaeology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
