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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