Pompeii's Ashes

The Reception of the Cities Buried by Vesuvius in Literature, Music, and Drama

Eric M. Moormann (Autor)

Media-Kombination

488 Seiten

2015
De Gruyter
978-1-61451-875-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Focuses on the many ways Pompeii and Herculaneum feature in fiction, drama, music, and cinema. This book includes analysis of their excavation history, and continues with discussions of travelers reports and their depiction in historical novels, contemporary and time traveling adventures, and works dedicated to Vesuvius.

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Pompeii's Ashes focuses on the many ways Pompeii and Herculaneum feature in fiction, drama, music, and cinema and shows how interest in the oldest running archaeological projects in the world continue until now. It begins with an analysis of their excavation history, and continues with discussions of travelers reports and their depiction in historical novels, contemporary and time traveling adventures, and works dedicated to Vesuvius.

Autor

Eric M. Moormann, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.4.2015
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 230 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Pompeii; Vesuvius; Historical Novel; Reception Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-61451-875-0 / 1614518750
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61451-875-4 / 9781614518754
• Zustand: Neuware