Shawn Malley, From Archaeology to Spectacle in Victorian Britain: The Case of Assyria, 1845-1854
Shawn Malley’s From Archaeology to Spectacle in Victorian Britain joins a growing body of scholarship on the reception of archeological artifacts in 19th-century Britain. The author reopens the case of Austen Henry Layard’s discovery of Nineveh in the late 1840s and its subsequent impact on Victori...
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| 發表在: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cve, |
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| 格式: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 語言: | Anglais |
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2014
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| 在線閱讀: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 總結: | Shawn Malley’s From Archaeology to Spectacle in Victorian Britain joins a growing body of scholarship on the reception of archeological artifacts in 19th-century Britain. The author reopens the case of Austen Henry Layard’s discovery of Nineveh in the late 1840s and its subsequent impact on Victorian culture. The archaeologist’s account of his adventures became a best-seller and the recovered artifacts caused a sensation when they were displayed in the British Museum in 1851. The issue has a... |
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