Pompeii in the Public Imagination from its

The city of Pompeii has had an enormous impact on Western imaginations since its rediscovery under the ashes of the volcano that destroyed it in 79 CE. In the 250 years since excavations began, Pompeii has helped to bring the ancient world to life for everyone, from music hall audiences to gentleman scholars, and it continues to have an impact on the way in which we think about the past, and the human condition itself. The contributors to this generously illustrated volume, who include the novelist Robert Harris, in a recorded interview, investigate how Pompeii has been used in film, fiction, and art on both sides of the Atlantic over three centuries. They explore the many different ways in which Pompeii inhabits our imaginations: as ghostly relic of human suffering, romantic ruin, model of cultural inspiration, home of a distant, decadent culture, and comforting model for everyday life.

Shelley Hales is Senior Lecturer in Art & Visual Culture, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Bristol.

Joanna Paul is Postgate Early Career Fellow in Classics, School of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology, University of Liverpool

List of Illustrations	p. xii
Notes on Contributors	p. xv
Introduction: Ruins and Reconstructions	p. 1
2A Tamed 'desire for images': Goethe's Repeated Approaches to Pompeii	p. 15
Ruined Waking Thoughts: William Beckford as a Visitor to Pompeii	p. 34
Making History: Pliny's Letters to Tacitus and Angelica Kauffmann's Pliny the Younger and his Mother at Misenum	p. 48
Site, Sight, and Symbol: Pompeii and Vesuvius in Corinne, or Italy	p. 62
Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii: Re-creating the City	p. 75
Objects of Affection: Necromantic Pathos in Bulwer-Lytton's City of the Dead	p. 90
Delusion and Dream in Théophile Gautier's Arria Marcella: Souvenir de Pompési	p. 105
Archaeology Meets Fantasy: Chassériau's Pompeii in Nineteenth-Century Paris	p. 118
Italian Classical-Revival Painters and the 'Southern Question'	p. 135
Cities of the Dead	p. 153
Christians and Jews at Pompeii in Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction	p. 171
Rocks, Ghosts, and Footprints: Freudian Archaeology	p. 185
On the Edge of the Volcano: The Last Days of Pompeii in the Early American Republic	p. 199
Experiencing the Last Days of Pompeii in Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia	p. 215
In Search of Lost Time and Pompeii	p. 232
Excavation Photographs and the Imagining of Pompeii's Streets: Vittoriq Spinazzola and the Via dell' Abbondanza	p. 246
The Getty Villa: Art, Architecture, and Aristocratic Self-Fashioning in the Mid-Twentieth Century	p. 270
Pompeii in Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy	p. 286
The Censorship Myth and the Secret Museum	p. 236
Modern Tourists, Ancient Sexualities: Looking at Looking in Pompeii's Brothel and the Secret Cabinet	p. 316
Writing Pompeii: An Interview with Robert Harris	p. 331
Pompeii, the Holocaust, and the Second World War	p. 340
Pompeii and the Cambridge Latin Course	p. 356
Ruins and Forgetfulness: The Case of Herculaneum	p. 367
Bibliography	p. 380
Index	p. 413
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