The Mummy's Curse - Luckhurst, Roger
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An interdisciplinary history looking at how Egypt, and the myth of the mummy's curse, fed into architecture, popular entertainments, theatres, newspapers and literature. It's a quirky and fascinating survey, providing a startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions, with new and important readings of literary figures such as Conan Doyle, Rider Haggard and Algernon Blackwood.
A quirky history that offers a new way of understanding the myth of the mummy's curse. Roger Luckhurst provides a startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions.…mehr

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An interdisciplinary history looking at how Egypt, and the myth of the mummy's curse, fed into architecture, popular entertainments, theatres, newspapers and literature. It's a quirky and fascinating survey, providing a startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions, with new and important readings of literary figures such as Conan Doyle, Rider Haggard and Algernon Blackwood.
A quirky history that offers a new way of understanding the myth of the mummy's curse. Roger Luckhurst provides a startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions.
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Autorenporträt
Roger Luckhurst has written and broadcast widely on popular culture, specialising in science fiction and the Gothic. He is interested in the odd spaces between science and popular supernatural beliefs. He has previously written a history of how the notion of 'telepathy' emerged in the late Victorian period, and has published editions of Jekyll and Hyde and Dracula. He is also a regular radio reviewer of terrible science fiction films. He teaches horror and the occasional respectable novel by Henry James at Birkbeck College, University of London.