Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions

CONTENTS\nList of Plates and Figures\nPreface and Acknowledgements\nIntroduction\nPrologue: The Journey to Vesuvius\nPart I. On the Volcano\n1 Close at Hand: The Visitors’ Book and Vesuvius\n2 Guides\nPart II. Sociability and Taste\n3 On the Mountain, On the Road: Sociability and Travel\n4 Vesuvius and the Sublime: Sublime Tourism, Aesthetic 194 Effects and Science\n5 Vesuvius: Travellers and Tourists in a Shifting Ecology\nPart III. Travel Writing, Politics and Revolution\n6 Vesuvius and Naples in Time, Space and History\nPart IV. Vesuvius and the Earth Sciences\n7 Vesuvius and Volcanoes\n8 Geologies: Vulcanism, Local and Global\nPart V. Geological Lives: The Politics of Vulcanism\n9 Déodat de Dolomieu and Teodoro Monticelli\n10 Déodat de Dolomieu: The Hazards of Vulcanism\n11 Teodoro Monticelli: International Vulcanism and Neapolitan Politics\nPart VI. Vesuvius and the Buried Cities\n12 The Spectacle of Catastrophe\n13 Vesuvius: The Spectacle of the Sublime in ‘the Age 429 of Contrivances\nConclusion\nEndnotes\nBibliography\nIndex