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Pompeii in the Public Imagination from its Rediscovery to Today
Edited by Shelley Hales and Joanna Paul
437 pages
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45 black & white illustrations, 7 colour plates
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216x138mm
978-0-19-956936-6
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Hardback
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17 November 2011
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- Offers a broad view of the influence of Pompeii on the Western imagination, allowing readers to compare its impact at different times in history and for different audiences
- Includes the voices of 'practitioners', such as Robert Harris and the Cambridge Latin team, alongside those of academics
- Generously illustrated, with the most important images appearing in colour
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.Readership: Scholars and students of classics, classical reception, ancient history, art history, cultural history, film studies, 19th and 20th century literature.
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Edited by Shelley Hales, Senior Lecturer in Art & Visual Culture, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Bristol, and Joanna Paul, Postgate Early Career Fellow in Classics, School of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology, University of Liverpool Contributors:
Constanze Baum, Technical University of Berlin
Sarak Betzer, University of Virginia
Meilee D. Bridges, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Victoria C. Gardner Coates, University of Pennsylvania
Luna Figurelli, University of Bristol
Kate Fisher, University of
Exeter
Thorsten Fitzon, University of Freiburg im Breisgau
Matthew Fox, University of Glasgow
Shelley Hales, University of Bristol
Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford
Jeremy Hartnett, Wabash College
Rebecca Langlands, University of Exeter
Kenneth Lapatin, J. Paul Getty Museum
Sarah Levin-Richardson, University of Washington, Seattle
Genevieve Liveley, University of Bristol
Margaret Malamud, New Mexico State University
Eric Moormann, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Daniel Orrells, University of Warwick
Joanna Paul, University of Liverpool
Jon L. Seydl, Cleveland Museum of Art
Francesca Spiegel
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill,
University of Cambridge
Barbara Witucki, Utica University, New York
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1: Shelley Hales & Joanna Paul: Introduction: Ruins and Reconstructions
2: Thorsten Fitzon: A Tamed 'desire for images': Goethe's Repeated Approaches to Pompeii
3: Constanze Baum: Ruined Waking Thoughts: William Beckford as a Visitor to Pompeii
4: Victoria C. Gardner Coates: Making History: Pliny's Letters to Tacitus and Angelica Kauffman's `Pliny and his Mother at Misenum'
5: Barbara Witucki: Site, Sight, and Symbol: Pompeii and Vesuvius in `Corinne, or Italy'
6: Stephen Harrison: Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii: Recreating the City
7: Meilee D. Bridges: Objects of Affection: Necromantic Pathos in Bulwer-Lytton's City of the Dead
8: Genevieve Liveley: Delusion and Dream in Théophile Gautier's `Arria Marcella: Souvenir de Pompéi'
9: Sarah Betzer: Archaeology Meets Fantasy: Chassériau's Pompeii in Nineteenth-Century Paris
10: Luna Figurelli: Italian Classical Revival Painters and the 'Southern Question'
11: Shelley Hales: Cities of the Dead
12: Eric Moormann: Christians and Jews at Pompeii in Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction
13: Daniel Orrells: Rocks, Ghosts and Footprints: Freudian Archaeology
14: Margaret Malamud: On the Edge of the Volcano: `The Last Days of Pompeii' in the Early American Republic
15: Jon L. Seydl: Experiencing The Last Days of Pompeii in Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
16: Francesca Spiegel: In Search of Lost Time and Pompeii
17: Jeremy Hartnett: Excavation Photographs and the Imagining of Pompeii's Streets: Vittorio Spinazzola and the Via dell'Abbondanza
18: Kenneth Lapatin: The Getty Villa: Art, Architecture, and Aristocratic Self-Fashioning in the Mid-Twentieth Century
19: Matthew Fox: Pompeii in Roberto Rossellini's `Journey to Italy'
20: Kate Fisher & Rebecca Langlands: The Censorship Myth and the Secret Museum
21: Sarah Levin-Richardson: Modern Tourists, Ancient Sexualities: Looking at Looking in Pompeii's Brothel and the Secret Cabinet
22: Writing Pompeii: An Interview with Robert Harris
23: Joanna Paul: Pompeii, the Holocaust, and World War Two
24: Pompeii and the Cambridge Latin Course
25: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill: Ruins and Forgetfulness: The Case of Herculaneum
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