The buried life of things: how objects made history in nineteenth-century Britain

"Simon Goldhill offers a fresh and exciting perspective on how the Victorians used material culture to express their sense of the past in an age of progress, especially the biblical past and the past of classical antiquity. From Pompeian skulls on a writer's desk, to religious paraphernali...

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1. Verfasser: Goldhill, Simon 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge Univ. Press 2015
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"Simon Goldhill offers a fresh and exciting perspective on how the Victorians used material culture to express their sense of the past in an age of progress, especially the biblical past and the past of classical antiquity. From Pompeian skulls on a writer's desk, to religious paraphernalia in churches, to new photographic images of the Holy Land, to the remaking of the cityscape of Jerusalem and Britain, Goldhill explores the remarkable way in which the nineteenth-century's sense of history was reinvented through things"
Beschreibung:IX, 259 S., [4] Bl. Ill., Kt. 26 cm
ISBN:9781107087484

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