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The Marble Wilderness: Ruins and Representation in Italian Romanticism, 1775–1850 Carolyn Springer
The Marble Wilderness: Ruins and Representation in Italian Romanticism, 1775–1850
Carolyn Springer
In this 1987 text, by focusing on rhetoric, Dr Springer distinguishes between the encomiastic mode of the Papacy and the exhortatory mode of the Risorgimento. Thus, the book argues, they concurred, despite dramatic ideological differences, in invoking archaeology as a figure of cultural rehabilitation.
210 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 9, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521159296 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 210 |
| Dimensions | 151 × 230 × 16 mm · 326 g |
| Language | English |