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Pompeii in the public imagination from its rediscovery to today

Title: Pompeii in the public imagination from its rediscovery to today / edited by Shelley Hales and Joanna Paul.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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xix, 417 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.

Summary

The contributors to this generously illustrated volume 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.

Series Statement

Classical presences

Uniform Title

Classical presences

Subject

Genre/Form

Art.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [380]-411) and index.

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 : 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.

ISBN

9780199569366
0199569363
9780191808265 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2011534495

OCLC

ocn704381197
704381197
SCSB-1619986

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library