Introduction : ruins and reconstructions / Shelley Hales and Joanna Paul -- A tamed 'desire for images' : Goethe's repeated approaches to Pompeii / Thorsten Fitzon -- Ruined waking thoughts : William Beckford as a visitor to Pompeii / Constanze Baum -- Making history : Pliny's letters to Tacitus and Angelica Kauffmann's Pliny the Younger and his mother at Misenum / Victoria C. Gardner Coates -- Site, sight, and symbol : Pompeii and Vesuvius in Corinne, or Italy / Barbara Witucki -- Bulwer-Lytton's The last days of Pompeii : re-creating the city / Stephen Harrison -- Objects of affection : necromantic pathos in Bulwer-Lytton's city of the dead / Meilee D. Bridges -- Delusion and dream in Théophile Gautier's Arria Marcella : Souvenir de Pompéi / Genevieve Liveley -- Archaeology meets fantasy : Chassériau's Pompeii in nineteenth-century Paris / Sarah Betzer -- Italian classical-revival painters and the 'southern question' / Luna Figurelli -- Cities of the dead / Shelley Hales -- Christians and Jews at Pompeii in late nineteenth-century fiction / Eric M. Moormann -- Rocks, ghosts, and footprints : Freudian archaeology / Daniel Orrells -- On the edge of the volcano : The last days of Pompeii in the early American republic / Margaret Malamud -- Experiencing the last days of Pompeii in late nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Jon L. Seydl -- In search of lost time and Pompeii / Francesca Spiegel -- Evacuation photographs and the imagining of Pompeii's streets : Vittorio Spinazzola and the Via dell'Abbondanza / Jeremy Hartnett -- The Getty villa : art architecture, and aristocratic self-fashioning in the mid-twentieth century / Kenneth Lapatin -- Pompeii in Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy / Matthew Fox -- The censorship myth and the secret museum / Kate Fisher and Rebecca Langlands -- Modern tourists, ancient sexualities : looking at looking in Pompeii's brothel and secret cabinet / Sarah Levin-Richardson -- Writing Pompeii : an interview with Robert Harris -- Pompeii, the Holocaust, and the Second World War / Joanna Paul -- Pompeii and the Cambridge Latin course -- Ruins and forgetfulness : the case of Herculaneum / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.