Pompeii in the public imagination from its rediscovery to today [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Shelley Hales and Joanna Paul

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (446 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9358
• Soggetto geografico: Pompeii (Extinct city)
• Classificazione: 6,12
• Altri autori: HalesShelley PaulJoanna
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction: Ruins and Reconstructions; 2. A Tamed 'desire for images': Goethe's Repeated Approaches to Pompeii; 3. Ruined Waking Thoughts: William Beckford as a Visitor to Pompeii; 4. Making History: Pliny's Letters to Tacitus and Angelica Kauffmann's Pliny the Younger and his Mother at Misenum; 5. Site, Sight, and Symbol: Pompeii and Vesuvius in Corinne, or Italy; 6. Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii: Re-creating the City; 7. Objects of Affection: Necromantic Pathos in Bulwer-Lytton's City of the Dead ; 8. Delusion and Dream in Théophile Gautier's Arria Marcella: Souvenir de Pompéi9. Archaeology Meets Fantasy: Chassériau's Pompeii in Nineteenth-Century Paris; 10. Italian Classical-Revival Painters and the 'Southern Question'; 11. Cities of the Dead; 12. Christians and Jews at Pompeii in Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction; 13. Rocks, Ghosts, and Footprints: Freudian Archaeology; 14. On the Edge of the Volcano: The Last Days of Pompeii in the Early American Republic; 15. Experiencing the Last Days of Pompeii in Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia; 16. In Search of Lost Time and Pompeii ; 17. Excavation Photographs and the Imagining of Pompeii's Streets: Vittorio Spinazzola and the Via dell'Abbondanza18. The Getty Villa: Art, Architecture, and Aristocratic Self-Fashioning in the Mid-Twentieth Century; 19. Pompeii in Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy; 20. The Censorship Myth and the Secret Museum; 21. Modern Tourists, Ancient Sexualities: Looking at Looking in Pompeii's Brothel and the Secret Cabinet; 22. Writing Pompeii: An Interview with Robert Harris; 23. Pompeii, the Holocaust, and the Second World War; 24. Pompeii and the Cambridge Latin Course ; 25. Ruins and Forgetfulness: The Case of HerculaneumBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, whoinclude the novelist Robert Harris, in a recorded interview, investigate how Pompeii has been used in film, fiction, a
• Titolo autorizzato: Pompeii in the public imagination from its rediscovery to today
• ISBN: 0-19-180826-1; 1-283-42672-2; 9786613426727; 0-19-161809-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996199059803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Classical presences.