From Paris to Pompeii : French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology [1 ed.] 9780812201307, 9780812241365

In the early nineteenth century, as amateur archaeologists excavated Pompeii, Egypt, Assyria, and the first prehistoric

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From Paris to Pompeii : French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology [1 ed.]
9780812201307, 9780812241365

Through the iconic example of Pompeii, and the spell this city cast on the early nineteen-century French Romantic imagin

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