Heringman

SCIENCES OF ANTIQUITY CLPR C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 719g
• ISBN-13: 9780199556915
• ISBN-10: 0199556911
• Artikelnr.: 36052996

Autorenporträt

Noah Heringman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri. His previous books include Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology (2004) and Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History (2003). He has published articles and chapters on Romantic poets, on the history of geology, and on Romanticism and the disciplines.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Contents
* List of Figures
* Abbreviations
* Introduction: Knowledge Work and the Proliferation of Antiquities
* Natural History and Antiquity
* 1:  Beyond Patronage: Knowledge Work, Professional Ambition, and the
Competing Narratives of the Endeavour Voyage
* 2: Campi Phlegraei and the Neapolitan Pursuit of "Most Remote
Antiquity"
* Greek Vases and Deep Time in Naples
* 3: Baron d'Hancarville, Sir William Hamilton, and the Collaborative
Production of Antiquities
* 4: The Natural History of Art: Customs and Manners in The Collection
of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities
* 5: "Their History, Written By Themselves": Ancient Religion, Deep
Time, and Embedded History
* England's Ruins
* Interlude: Classical to Gothic
* 6: Antiquarianism and the Science of Preservation: Jacob Schnebbelie,
Richard Gough, and Gothic Antiquity
* 7: "The Whole of This Coast Is Composed of Ruins": Thomas Webster's
Fieldwork on the Isle of Wight
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index