The Buried Life of Things: How Objects Made History in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author:   Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107087484


Pages:   268
Publication Date:   18 December 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9781107087484


ISBN 10:   1107087481
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   18 December 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 land; 4. Building history: a mandate coda; 5. Restoration; Coda: a final dig; Bibliography.

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Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge; John Harvard Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge; Director of the Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities; Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His internationally award-winning books include Jerusalem, City of Longing (2008), Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity (2011) and Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy (2012).

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