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Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Preface: The Return of the Repressed
Acknowledgments
PART ONE Antique Matters
Introduction: The Etruscans from Empire to Defeat …Assimilation … Return
PART TWO Creating a Taste for the Etruscans
1 Johann Joachim Winckelmann: The Etruscan Chapter in The History of the Art of Antiquity (1764)
2 Sir William Hamilton and Josiah Wedgwood: The Indispensable Connoisseur and the Potter Who Made the Etruscans Visible, Fashionable, and Popular
3 William Blake: What Is an "Etruscan" Doing in "An Island in the Moon" (1784-85)?
4 Barthold Georg Niebuhr: The Return of the Etruscans in The History of Rome (1812)
5 Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino: Selling Out the Etruscans
6 Thomas Babington Macaulay: Lays of Ancient Rome (1842), a Poem of Empire
7 Mrs Hamilton Gray and George Dennis: English Travellers
PART THREE Etruscans in Basel, Rome, Massachusetts, Paris, London, and Vienna
8 Johann Jakob Bachofen: Das Mutterrecht (1861), The Saga of Tanaquil (1870), and an Etruscan Queen
9 Etruscan Vases: Prosper Mérimée, Stendhal, and Gustave Flaubert
10 Etruscans in America: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Dream (1862), Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (1860), and Emily Dickinson's Etruscan Triptych
11 Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Edith Reveley: The Sarcophagus of the Married Couple
12 Anatole France's The Red Lily (1894), a Glance at Marcel Proust, and Etruscan Humour
13 Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900): Etruscan Dreams
PART FOUR The Etruscans after Lawrence
14 Aldous Huxley's Etruscan Decade: Those Barren Leaves (1925) and "After the Fireworks" (1930), with a Glance at Roger Fry
15D.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).
16 Raymond Queneau: How a Restless Surrealist and Future Pataphysician Resurrected the Etruscans in The Bark Tree (1933)
17 Mika Waltari's The Etruscan (1955): Civilizations in Crisis and the Fate of Spirit
18 Peggy Glanville-Hicks's Etruscan Concerto (1954): Etruscan Music Imagined
PART FIVE The Etruscans Enter Our World: The Holocaust, Modernism, the ColdWar, Hollywood, Phenomenology, and Marilyn Monroe
19 Giorgio Bassani's The Gardenof the Finzi-Continis (1962): EtruscansJewsItalians
20 Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, and David Smith: Etruscan Affinities, and a Noteon Massimo Campigli
21 Zbigniew Herbert and Wisława Szymborska: Etruscans, Poles, and "Peoples Unlucky in History"
22 Rika Lesser's Etruscan Things (1983): If Stones Could Speak or Lithic Prosopopoeia
23 Don Siegel's The Killers (1964) and William Gibson's Idoru (1996): When Is an Etruscan Not an Etruscan?
24 Anne Carson: "Canicula di Anna" (1984) and Norma Jeane Baker in Etruria
Afterword: Nostos
Appendix: Etruscan Sightings
Bibliography
Index.
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Preface: The Return of the Repressed
Acknowledgments
PART ONE Antique Matters
Introduction: The Etruscans from Empire to Defeat …Assimilation … Return
PART TWO Creating a Taste for the Etruscans
1 Johann Joachim Winckelmann: The Etruscan Chapter in The History of the Art of Antiquity (1764)
2 Sir William Hamilton and Josiah Wedgwood: The Indispensable Connoisseur and the Potter Who Made the Etruscans Visible, Fashionable, and Popular
3 William Blake: What Is an "Etruscan" Doing in "An Island in the Moon" (1784-85)?
4 Barthold Georg Niebuhr: The Return of the Etruscans in The History of Rome (1812)
5 Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino: Selling Out the Etruscans
6 Thomas Babington Macaulay: Lays of Ancient Rome (1842), a Poem of Empire
7 Mrs Hamilton Gray and George Dennis: English Travellers
PART THREE Etruscans in Basel, Rome, Massachusetts, Paris, London, and Vienna
8 Johann Jakob Bachofen: Das Mutterrecht (1861), The Saga of Tanaquil (1870), and an Etruscan Queen
9 Etruscan Vases: Prosper Mérimée, Stendhal, and Gustave Flaubert
10 Etruscans in America: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Dream (1862), Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (1860), and Emily Dickinson's Etruscan Triptych
11 Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Edith Reveley: The Sarcophagus of the Married Couple
12 Anatole France's The Red Lily (1894), a Glance at Marcel Proust, and Etruscan Humour
13 Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900): Etruscan Dreams
PART FOUR The Etruscans after Lawrence
14 Aldous Huxley's Etruscan Decade: Those Barren Leaves (1925) and "After the Fireworks" (1930), with a Glance at Roger Fry
15D.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).
16 Raymond Queneau: How a Restless Surrealist and Future Pataphysician Resurrected the Etruscans in The Bark Tree (1933)
17 Mika Waltari's The Etruscan (1955): Civilizations in Crisis and the Fate of Spirit
18 Peggy Glanville-Hicks's Etruscan Concerto (1954): Etruscan Music Imagined
PART FIVE The Etruscans Enter Our World: The Holocaust, Modernism, the ColdWar, Hollywood, Phenomenology, and Marilyn Monroe
19 Giorgio Bassani's The Gardenof the Finzi-Continis (1962): EtruscansJewsItalians
20 Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, and David Smith: Etruscan Affinities, and a Noteon Massimo Campigli
21 Zbigniew Herbert and Wisława Szymborska: Etruscans, Poles, and "Peoples Unlucky in History"
22 Rika Lesser's Etruscan Things (1983): If Stones Could Speak or Lithic Prosopopoeia
23 Don Siegel's The Killers (1964) and William Gibson's Idoru (1996): When Is an Etruscan Not an Etruscan?
24 Anne Carson: "Canicula di Anna" (1984) and Norma Jeane Baker in Etruria
Afterword: Nostos
Appendix: Etruscan Sightings
Bibliography
Index.