Description: Hill guides the reader on a tour of Stonehenge in all its cultural contexts, as a monument to many things--to Renaissance Humanism, Romantic despair, Victorian enterprise, and English Radicalism.
Brief description: Rosemary Hill is a distinguished independent scholar and award-winning author. She is a Trustee of the Victorian Society and a member of the editorial board of the London Review of Books.
Review Quotes: Readable and well-researched, this is an excellent primer on...varying ways that people have interpreted the enigmatic and iconographic arrangement of stones, ranging from theater for human sacrifice to 'carhenge' and other ironic re-creations.--Patricia Monaghan "Booklist" (11/1/2008 12:00:00 AM)