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The buried life of things : how objects made history in nineteenth-century Britain
- Title
- The buried life of things : how objects made history in nineteenth-century Britain / Simon Goldhill.
- Author
- Goldhill, Simon
- Publication
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- ©2015
- Supplementary Content
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 15-438 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- ix, 259 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
- Summary
- "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 paraphernalia in churches, to new photographic images of the Holy Land, to the remaking of the cityscape of Jerusalem and Britain, Goldhill explores the remarkable way in which the nineteenth-century's sense of history was reinvented through things"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-254) and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the buried life of things; 1. A writer's things: Edward Bulwer Lytton and the archaeological gaze; 2. When things matter: religion and the physical world; 3. Imperial landscapes, the biblical gaze, and techniques of the photo album: capturing the real in Jerusalem and the holy land; 4. Building history: a mandate coda; 5. Restoration; Coda: a final dig; Bibliography.
- Call Number
- JFF 15-438
- ISBN
- 9781107087484
- 1107087481
- 9781316191859 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014023809
- OCLC
- 903161925
- Author
- Goldhill, Simon, author.
- Title
- The buried life of things : how objects made history in nineteenth-century Britain / Simon Goldhill.
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-254) and index.
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- Other Form:
- ebook version 9781316191859
- Research Call Number
- JFF 15-438