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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2014
      18 December 2014
      ISBN:
      9781316103821
      9781107087484
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316103821
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.72kg, 268 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), English Literature 1830-1900
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    Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), English Literature 1830-1900
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    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.

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