Author: William DrummondPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Herculanensia; Or Archeological and Philological Dissertations, Containing a Manuscript Found Among the Ruins of Herculaneum, Etc
Author: William DrummondHerculanensia; Or Archeological and Philological Dissertations, Containing a Manuscript Found Among the Ruins of Herculaneum, Etc
Author: William DrummondCatalogue of the Library of Wilberforce Eames (of the New York Public Library)...
Author: Wilberforce EamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Wilberforce Eames ...
Author: Wilberforce EamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Life of Thomas Young M.D., F.R.S., Etc.
Author: George PeacockPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108057365
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
An engaging and affectionate 1855 biography of the polymath Thomas Young (1773-1829), 'the last man who knew everything'.
From Paris to Pompeii
Author: Göran BlixPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201302
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In the early nineteenth century, as amateur archaeologists excavated Pompeii, Egypt, Assyria, and the first prehistoric sites, a myth arose of archaeology as a magical science capable of unearthing and reconstructing worlds thought to be irretrievably lost. This timely myth provided an urgent antidote to the French anxiety of amnesia that undermined faith in progress, and it armed writers from Chateaubriand and Hugo to Michelet and Renan with the intellectual tools needed to affirm the indestructible character of the past. From Paris to Pompeii reveals how the nascent science of archaeology lay at the core of the romantic experience of history and shaped the way historians, novelists, artists, and the public at large sought to cope with the relentless change that relegated every new present to history. In postrevolutionary France, the widespread desire to claim that no being, city, culture, or language was ever definitively erased ran much deeper than mere nostalgic and reactionary impulses. Göran Blix contends that this desire was the cornerstone of the substitution of a weak secular form of immortality for the lost certainties of the Christian afterlife. Taking the iconic city of Pompeii as its central example, and ranging widely across French romantic culture, this book examines the formation of a modern archaeological gaze and analyzes its historical ontology, rhetoric of retrieval, and secular theology of memory, before turning to its broader political implications.
A Catalogue of Books, in Every Department of Oriental Literature
Author: ..... HowellA Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
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Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description