| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 417 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). |
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| Series |
Classical presences
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Classical presences.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-411) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
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 : 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 -- 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 -- 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 : Case of Herculaneum / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pompeii (Extinct city)
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Pompeii (Extinct city) -- In art.
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Pompeii (Extinct city) -- In literature.
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Pompeii (Extinct city) -- In motion pictures.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome. |
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Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Art.
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Art.
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| Added Author |
Hales, Shelley, 1971-
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Paul, Joanna.
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| Added Title |
Pompeii in the public imagination : from its rediscovery to today |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9786613426727 |
| ISBN |
9780199569366 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0199569363 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780191618093 (electronic book) |
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0191618098 (electronic book) |
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9780191808265 |
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0191808261 |
| Standard No. |
9786613426727 |
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