ISBN:
9781107087484
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 259 S., [4] Bl.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
26 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4/6
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Geschichte
;
Gesellschaft
;
Material culture / History / Great Britain
;
Consumption (Economics) / Social aspects / History / Great Britain
;
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
;
Sachkultur
;
Geschichtsbewusstsein
;
Großbritannien
;
Großbritannien
;
Großbritannien
;
Sachkultur
;
Geschichtsbewusstsein
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
Abstract:
"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"
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: the buried life of things -- 1. A writer's things: Edward Bulwer Lytton and the archaeological gaze -- 2. When things matter: religion and the physical world -- 3. Imperial landscapes, the biblical gaze, and techniques of the photo album: capturing the real in Jerusalem and the holy land -- 4. Building history: a mandate coda -- 5. Restoration
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