From archaeology to spectacle in Victorian Britain
Subtitle: the case of Assyria, 1845-1854
By: by Shawn Malley
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781409426899; 9781409426905
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology); British Foreign public opinion; Popular culture; Antiquities; Archaeology; Public opinion; Archaeologists; Imperialism; In popular culture; Biography; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Opening the Layard Box; title: Layard Enterprise : An Archaeology of Informal Imperialism; title: Re-membering Assyria : The Case of the Bull and Lion; title: Theatre/Archaeology : Sardanapalus, 1853; title: In the Shadow of the Bull : Archaeology, War, Entropy; title: Precession of the Bull : Simulated Assyria; title: Conclusion: Digging up the Future : Assyria in Science Fiction.