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Taking up the material, historical, cultural, political, artistic and literary case of the Elgin Marbles, Materialist Romanticism tracks the material traces of the marbles, from their origin in the Pentalic quarries that supplied the Periclean building program, to Lord Elgin’s controversial acquisition of them more than two millennia later. Dewey Hall moves fluently among archives and discourses, and integrates his deft readings of famous poems by Byron and Keats into an investigation capacious enough to consider phenomena as disparate as the chemical composition of marble and the massive eruption of Mount Tambora, which blighted harvests across Europe and thereby indirectly contributed to the debate surrounding the British Museum’s purchase of the sculptures in 1816. * Marc Redfield, Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Brown University, USA *

Taking up the material, historical, cultural, political, artistic and literary case of the Elgin Marbles, Materialist Romanticism tracks the material traces of the marbles, from their origin in the Pentelic quarries that supplied the Periclean building program, to Lord Elgin’s controversial acquisition of them more than two millennia later. Dewey Hall moves fluently among archives and discourses, and integrates his deft readings of famous poems by Byron and Keats into an investigation capacious enough to consider phenomena as disparate as the chemical composition of marble and the massive eruption of Mount Tambora, which blighted harvests across Europe and thereby indirectly contributed to the debate surrounding the British Museum’s purchase of the sculptures in 1816. * Marc Redfield, Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Brown University, USA *

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Dewey W. Hall is Professor of English at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

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