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

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Preface: The Return of the Repressed xiii
5. Acknowledgments xxiii
6. Antique Matters
7. Introduction: The Etruscans from Empire to Defeat … Assimilation … Return 3
8. Creating a Taste for the Etruscans
9. Johann Joachim Winckelmann: The Etruscan Chapter in The History of the Art of Antiquity (1764) 41
10. Sir William Hamilton and Josiah Wedgwood: The Indispensable Connoisseur and the Potter Who Made the Etruscans Visible, Fashionable, and Popular 51
11. William Blake: What Is an “Etruscan” Doing in “An Island in the Moon” (1784–85)? 61
12. Barthold Georg Niebuhr: The Return of the Etruscans in The History of Rome (1812) 67
13. Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino: Selling Out the Etruscans 75
14. Thomas Babington Macaulay: Lays of Ancient Rome (1842), a Poem of Empire 79
15. Mrs Hamilton Gray and George Dennis: English Travellers 84
16. Etruscans in Basel, Rome, Massachusetts, Paris, London, and Vienna
17. Johann Jakob Bachofen: Das Mutterrecht (1861), The Saga of Tanaquil (1870), and an Etruscan Queen 99
18. Etruscan Vases: Prosper Mérimée, Stendhal, and Gustave Flaubert 107
19. Etruscans in America: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Dream (1862), Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (1860), and Emily Dickinson's Etruscan Triptych 119
20. Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Edith Reveley: The Sarcophagus of the Married Couple 136
21. Anatole France's The Red Lily (1894), a Glance at Marcel Proust, and Etruscan Humour 146
22. Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900): Etruscan Dreams 157
23. The Etruscans after Lawrence
24. Aldous Huxley's Etruscan Decade: Those Barren Leaves (1925) and “After the Fireworks” (1930), with a Glance at Roger Fry 169
25. 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) 178
26. Raymond Queneau: How a Restless Surrealist and Future Pataphysician Resurrected the Etruscans in The Bark Tree (1933) 192
27. Mika Waltari's The Etruscan (1955): Civilizations in Crisis and the Fate of Spirit 199
28. Peggy Glanville-Hicks’s Etruscan Concerto (1954): Etruscan Music Imagined 208
29. The Etruscans Enter Our World: The Holocaust, Modernism, the Cold War, Hollywood, Phenomenology, and Marilyn Monroe
30. Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962): EtruscansJewsItalians 221
31. Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, and David Smith: Etruscan Affinities, and a Note on Massimo Campigli 226
32. Zbigniew Herbert and Wisława Szymborska: Etruscans, Poles, and “Peoples Unlucky in History” 234
33. Rika Lesser’s Etruscan Things (1983): If Stones Could Speak or Lithic Prosopopoeia 243
34. Don Siegel’s The Killers (1964) and William Gibson’s Idoru (1996): When Is an Etruscan Not an Etruscan? 249
35. Anne Carson: “Canicula di Anna” (1984) and Norma Jeane Baker in Etruria 253
36. Afterword: Nostos 265
37. Appendix: Etruscan Sightings 273
38. Bibliography 285
39. Index 307