Pompeii in the public imagination from its rediscovery to today

Hales, Shelley, 1971- (Added Author). Paul, Joanna. (Added Author).

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.

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ISBN: 9780199569366
ISBN: 9780191808265
ISBN: 9780191618093
ISBN: 0199569363
ISBN: 0191808261
ISBN: 0191618098
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 417 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
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Publisher: Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:january.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-411) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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 Th�eophile Gautier's Arria Marcella : Souvenir de Pomp�ei / Genevieve Liveley -- Archaeology meets fantasy : Chass�eriau'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 : The 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 -- The 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 -- The 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 : the case of Herculaneum / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.
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