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The Buried Life of Things
Simon Goldhill
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2015
主題
Business & Economics / Economic Conditions
Business & Economics / Economics / General
History / Ancient / General
History / Social History
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Social Science / General
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
ISBN
1107087481
9781107087484
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SqGTBQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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, new photographic images of the Holy Land and the remaking of the cityscape of Jerusalem and Britain, Goldhill explores the remarkable way in which the nineteenth century's sense of history was reinvented through things. The Buried Life of Things shows how new technologies changed how history was discovered and analysed, and how material objects could flare into significance in bitter controversies, and then fade into obscurity and disregard again. This book offers a new route into understanding the Victorians' complex and often bizarre attempts to use their past to express their own modernity.