Pompeii in the Public Imagination from its Rediscovery to Today
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 November 2011
- ISBN 9780199569366
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages440 pages
- Size 219x135x36 mm
- Weight 758 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 45 black & white illustrations, 7 colour plates 0
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Short description:
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, and the volume is fully illustrated, with several images in full colour.
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The city of Pompeii has had an enormous impact on Western imaginations since its rediscovery under the ashes of the volcano that destroyed it in 79 CE. In the 250 years since excavations began, Pompeii has helped to bring the ancient world to life for everyone, from music hall audiences to gentleman scholars, and it continues to have an impact on the way in which we think about the past, and the human condition itself. The contributors to this generously illustrated volume, who include the novelist Robert Harris, in a recorded interview, investigate how Pompeii has been used in film, fiction, and art on both sides of the Atlantic over three centuries. They explore the many different ways in which Pompeii inhabits our imaginations: as ghostly relic of human suffering, romantic ruin, model of cultural inspiration, home of a distant, decadent culture, and comforting model for everyday life.
This is a thought-provoking and wide-ranging work, bringing together such diverse subjects as changing attitudes to Pompeii's erotic material and the excavations' impact on 19th-century Italy's emerging political identity. Its often-surprising insights shed new light on this most familiar of sites.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Ruins and Reconstructions
A Tamed 'desire for images': Goethe's Repeated Approaches to Pompeii
Ruined Waking Thoughts: William Beckford as a Visitor to Pompeii
Making History: Pliny's Letters to Tacitus and Angelica Kauffman's `Pliny and his Mother at Misenum'
Site, Sight, and Symbol: Pompeii and Vesuvius in `Corinne, or Italy'
Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii: Recreating the City
Objects of Affection: Necromantic Pathos in Bulwer-Lytton's City of the Dead
Delusion and Dream in Théophile Gautier's `Arria Marcella: Souvenir de Pompéi'
Archaeology Meets Fantasy: Chassériau's Pompeii in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Italian Classical Revival Painters and the 'Southern Question'
Cities of the Dead
Christians and Jews at Pompeii in Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Rocks, Ghosts and Footprints: Freudian Archaeology
On the Edge of the Volcano: `The Last Days of Pompeii' in the Early American Republic
Experiencing The Last Days of Pompeii in Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
In Search of Lost Time and Pompeii
Excavation Photographs and the Imagining of Pompeii's Streets: Vittorio Spinazzola and the Via dell'Abbondanza
The Getty Villa: Art, Architecture, and Aristocratic Self-Fashioning in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Pompeii in Roberto Rossellini's `Journey to Italy'
The Censorship Myth and the Secret Museum
Modern Tourists, Ancient Sexualities: Looking at Looking in Pompeii's Brothel and the Secret Cabinet
Writing Pompeii: An Interview with Robert Harris
Pompeii, the Holocaust, and World War Two
Pompeii and the Cambridge Latin Course
Ruins and Forgetfulness: The Case of Herculaneum
Understanding Language: A Basic Course in Linguistics
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