The buried life of things : how objects made history in nineteenth-century Britain / Simon Goldhill.
The buried life of things : how objects made history in nineteenth-century Britain / Simon Goldhill.
The buried life of things : how objects made history in nineteenth-century Britain / Simon Goldhill.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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G 2016/2180
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English
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ix, 259 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, plans ; 25 cm.
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text
still image
text
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unmediated
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volume
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 la...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2015.
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Summary
"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,...
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The buried life of things : how objects made history in nineteenth-century Britain / Simon Goldhill.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-254) and index.
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©2015.
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G 2016/2180
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74VKVpQOyeXM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVpQOyeXM
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9781107087484 (hardback) :
DDC
306.46094109034
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991023988218902626
