 | From Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology Subjects: Archaeology -- France -- History -- 19th century; Archaeology -- History -- 19th century; Archaeology -- Philosophy; Archaeology and history; France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Romanticism -- France -- History -- 19th century; Secularism -- Fran; 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. Goran Blix teaches French at Princeton University. |
