From Paris to Pompeii French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology - Blix, Göran (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)
Biographical note: Goran Blix teaches French at Princeton University
Main description: Through the iconic example of Pompeii, and the spell this city cast on the early nineteen-century French Romantic imagination, From Paris to Pompeii shows how an archaeological gaze arose in response to a secular anxiety of memory loss and helped define our modern relationship to history