Main entry:

Woodward, Christopher.

Title & Author:

In ruins / Christopher Woodward.

Publication:

London : Chatto & Windus, 2001.

Description:

280 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.
I. Who Killed Daisy Miller? -- II. A Perverse Pleasure -- III. Haunted Houses -- IV. Ephesus without an Umbrella -- V. An Exemplary Frailty -- VI. Time's Shipwreck -- VII. Serious Follies -- VIII. Self-portrait in Ruins -- IX. The Ozymandias Complex -- X. Dust in the Air Suspended -- XI. The Novelist, the Fisherman and the Prince -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes -- Index.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Why are we so fascinated by ruins? Do we see them as jigsaws and riddles or romantic evocations of the hand of Time and Nature, poems in crumbling stone and clinging ivy? Do they call up past glories or warn against future arrogance?" "The art historian Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand year journey with artists and writers who have delighted in ruins. We travel from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome, from the crumbling palaces of Sicily, Cuba and Zanzibar to the rubble of the London Blitz. We meet the teenage Byron in the mouldering Newstead Abbey, Flaubert watching buzzards on the pyramids, Henry James in the Colosseum and Freud at Pompeii. Even the decay of an ordinary house can be as moving as the collapse of a temple: we see our own mort the American Empire in Planet of the Apes."--Book jacket.

Resources:
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ISBN:

070116896X
9780701168964

Subject:

Excavations (Archaeology) Anecdotes.
Excavations (Archaeology) Social aspects Anecdotes.
Historic sites Anecdotes.
Voyages and travels Anecdotes.
Artists Travel Anecdotes.
Authors Travel Anecdotes.
Travelers' writings.
Fouilles (Archéologie) Anecdotes.
Fouilles (Archéologie) Aspect social Anecdotes.
Lieux historiques Anecdotes.
Artistes Voyages Anecdotes.
Écrivains Voyages Anecdotes.
Écrits de voyageurs.
travel literature.
Artists Travel
Authors Travel
Excavations (Archaeology)
Historic sites
Voyages and travels
Ruïnes.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Ruins in art
Ruins in literature

Form/genre:

Anecdotes

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219432
Call No.: N8237.8.R8 W6 2001
Status: Available