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Producing the past : aspects of antiquarian culture and practice, 1700-1850

Title: Producing the past : aspects of antiquarian culture and practice, 1700-1850 / edited by Martin Myrone and Lucy Peltz.
Publication: Aldershot, Hants ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, ©1999.

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Description

xxiii, 214 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Antiquarianism, which had its roots in Renaissance thought, was a popular intellectual and cultural pursuit throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The antiquarian work of collecting, compiling and presenting material which exposed the past was seminal to the formation of social and national identities. These essays evaluate the cultural and political implications of antiquarianism in the period 1700-1850. The volume also considers how the antiquarians laid the foundations of later museum culture and the discipline of history."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Reinterpreting classicism

Uniform Title

Reinterpreting classicism.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-207) and index.

Contents

Introduction : 'Mine are the subjects rejected by the historian' : antiquarianism, history and the making of modern culture / Lucy Peltz and Martin Myrone -- Ceci n'est pas un monument : Vetusta monumenta and antiquarian aesthetics / Maria Grazia Lolla -- Graphic antiquarianism in eighteenth-century Britain : the career and reputation of George Vertue (1684-1756) / Martin Myrone -- British antiquity and antiquarian illustration / Sam Smiles -- 'A small journey into the country' : William Stukeley and the formal landscapes of Stonehenge and Avebury / David Haycock -- The true rust of the Barons' Wars : gardens, ruins and the national landscape / Stephen Bending -- Caspar David Friedrich and national antiquarianism in Northern Germany / Johann J.K. Reusch -- The extra-illustration of London : the gendered spaces and practices of antiquarianism in the late eighteenth century / Lucy Peltz -- The desk : excavation site and repository of memories / Annegret Pelz ; translated and revised by Anne Puetz -- Antiquarianism, connoisseurship and the Northern Renaissance print : new collecting cultures in the early nineteenth century / Heather MacLennan -- Science and sensibility : architectural antiquarianism in the early nineteenth century / Alexandrina Buchanan -- Story, history and the passionate collector / Susan A. Crane.

ISBN

1840142758
9781840142754

LCCN

98053016

OCLC

ocm40460048
40460048
SCSB-961747

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library