The Etruscans in the modern imagination / Sam Solecki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solecki, Sam, author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas.

McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Etruscans.

Europe--Civilization--Etruscan influences.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Summary:

The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had all but disappeared by the start of the Christian era. Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to the intellectual and cultural history of the west, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists, to provide a fascinating meditation on cultural transmission between ancient and modern civilizations.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface: The Return of the Repressed

Acknowledgments

Antique Matters

Introduction: The Etruscans from Empire to Defeat … Assimilation … Return

Creating a Taste for the Etruscans

Johann Joachim Winckelmann: The Etruscan Chapter in The History of the Art of Antiquity (1764)

Sir William Hamilton and Josiah Wedgwood: The Indispensable Connoisseur and the Potter Who Made the Etruscans Visible,

Fashionable, and Popular

William Blake: What Is an “Etruscan” Doing in “An Island in the Moon” (1784–85)?

Barthold Georg Niebuhr: The Return of the Etruscans in The History of Rome (1812)

Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino: Selling Out the Etruscans

Thomas Babington Macaulay: Lays of Ancient Rome (1842), a Poem of Empire

Mrs Hamilton Gray and George Dennis: English Travellers

Etruscans in Basel, Rome, Massachusetts, Paris, London, and Vienna

Johann Jakob Bachofen: Das Mutterrecht (1861), The Saga of Tanaquil (1870), and an Etruscan Queen

Etruscan Vases: Prosper Mérimée, Stendhal, and Gustave Flaubert

Etruscans in America: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Dream (1862), Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (1860), and Emily Dickinson's Etruscan Triptych

Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Edith Reveley: The Sarcophagus of the Married Couple

Anatole France's The Red Lily (1894), a Glance at Marcel Proust, and Etruscan Humour

Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900): Etruscan Dreams

The Etruscans after Lawrence

Aldous Huxley's Etruscan Decade: Those Barren Leaves (1925) and “After the Fireworks” (1930), with a Glance at Roger Fry

D.H. Lawrence's Etruscan Places (1932): The Invention of the Etruscans for the Twentieth Century and Margaret Drabble's Lawrentian

The Dark Flood Rises (2016)

Raymond Queneau: How a Restless Surrealist and Future Pataphysician Resurrected the Etruscans in The Bark Tree (1933)

Mika Waltari's The Etruscan (1955): Civilizations in Crisis and the Fate of Spirit

Peggy Glanville-Hicks’s Etruscan Concerto (1954): Etruscan Music Imagined

The Etruscans Enter Our World: The Holocaust, Modernism, the Cold War, Hollywood, Phenomenology, and Marilyn Monroe

Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962): EtruscansJewsItalians

Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, and David Smith: Etruscan Affinities, and a Note on Massimo Campigli

Zbigniew Herbert and Wisława Szymborska: Etruscans, Poles, and “Peoples Unlucky in History”

Rika Lesser’s Etruscan Things (1983): If Stones Could Speak or Lithic Prosopopoeia

Don Siegel’s The Killers (1964) and William Gibson’s Idoru (1996): When Is an Etruscan Not an Etruscan?

Anne Carson: “Canicula di Anna” (1984) and Norma Jeane Baker in Etruria

Afterword: Nostos

Appendix: Etruscan Sightings

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Solecki, Sam The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination

ISBN:

9780228015772

0228015774

9780228015765

0228015766

OCLC:

1344538441