The Buried Life of Things: How Objects Made History in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Simon Goldhill

The Buried Life of Things: How Objects Made History in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Simon Goldhill

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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 ...

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