LEADER 04235nam 2200757 450 001 9910787538203321 005 20211217013908.0 010 $a0-8122-0130-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201307 035 $a(CKB)2670000000419277 035 $a(OCoLC)861529465 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10757353 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001000155 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11587644 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001000155 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10943351 035 $a(PQKB)10592297 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse31578 035 $a(DE-B1597)448985 035 $a(OCoLC)979968244 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201307 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442253 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10757353 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682329 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442253 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000419277 100 $a20080617h20092009 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom Paris to Pompeii $eFrench romanticism and the cultural politics of archaeology /$fGo?ran Blix 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cPENN,$d[2009] 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (319 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51047-4 311 0 $a0-8122-4136-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [277]-297) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction --$tChapter One: Neoclassical Pompeii --$tChapter Two: The Antiquarian Comes of Age --$tChapter Three: The Archaeological Turn --$tChapter Four: The Specular Past --$tChapter Five: Body Politics --$tChapter Six: Lost Worlds and the Archive --$tChapter Seven: The Uses of Archaeology --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn the early nineteenth century, as amateur archaeologists excavated Pompeii, Egypt, Assyria, and the first prehistoric sites, a myth arose of archaeology as a magical science capable of unearthing and reconstructing worlds thought to be irretrievably lost. This timely myth provided an urgent antidote to the French anxiety of amnesia that undermined faith in progress, and it armed writers from Chateaubriand and Hugo to Michelet and Renan with the intellectual tools needed to affirm the indestructible character of the past. From Paris to Pompeii reveals how the nascent science of archaeology lay at the core of the romantic experience of history and shaped the way historians, novelists, artists, and the public at large sought to cope with the relentless change that relegated every new present to history. In post-revolutionary France, the widespread desire to claim that no being, city, culture, or language was ever definitively erased ran much deeper than mere nostalgic and reactionary impulses. Göran Blix contends that this desire was the cornerstone of the substitution of a weak secular form of immortality for the lost certainties of the Christian afterlife. Taking the iconic city of Pompeii as its central example, and ranging widely across French romantic culture, this book examines the formation of a modern archaeological gaze and analyzes its historical ontology, rhetoric of retrieval, and secular theology of memory, before turning to its broader political implications. 606 $aArchaeology$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aArchaeology$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aArchaeology$xPhilosophy 606 $aArchaeology and history 606 $aRomanticism$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSecularism$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aFrance$xIntellectual life$y19th century 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aArchaeology$xHistory 615 0$aArchaeology$xHistory 615 0$aArchaeology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aArchaeology and history. 615 0$aRomanticism$xHistory 615 0$aSecularism$xHistory 676 $a930.10944 700 $aBlix$b Go?ran Magnus$f1971-$01331674 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787538203321 996 $aFrom Paris to Pompeii$93789033 997 $aUNINA