From Paris to Pompeii
ISBN: 9780812201307
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Secularism; Romanticism; Archaeology and history.; Archaeology; Archaeology; Archaeology;

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.
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