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June 3, 2010
Göran Blix From Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 320 pp.; 16 b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (9780812241365)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.60

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The title of this far-reaching book suggests a simple journey through time and place. Given the impressive number of sites, authors, and disciplines it engages, however, the reader should envisage a comfortable vehicle and a good deal of time to take everything in, because, more than telling the story of French fascination with the lost world of Pompeii, From Paris to Pompeii explores how archaeology functioned as a metaphor that inspired Romantic cultural productions stretching...