Victorian literary culture and ancient Egypt

Herausgeber: Dobson, Eleanor

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first academic study to address ancient Egypt as it was appropriated across disparate literary modes during the Victorian era. Drawing on texts by canonical authors while illuminating new sources and understudied works, it brings the highbrow and the popular into conversation, addressing contemporary ideas of race, gender and religion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 479g
• ISBN-13: 9781526141880
• ISBN-10: 1526141884
• Artikelnr.: 57376491

Autorenporträt

Eleanor Dobson is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Eleanor Dobson 1 Allamistakeo awakes: the earliest image of an ambulatory mummy
Jasmine Day 2 Adam Bede: an ancient Egyptian book of Genesis
Haythem Bastawy 3 Remembering Mrs Potiphar: Victorian reclamations of a biblical temptress
Angie Blumberg 4 Prefiguring the cross: a typological reading of H. Rider Haggard's Cleopatra
Sara Woodward 5 'The culminating flower of cat
worship in Egypt': nineteenth
century stage Cleopatras and Victorian views of ancient Egypt
Molly Youngkin 6 'A Memnon waiting for the day': ancient Egypt in aestheticism and decadence
Giles Whiteley 7 Perfume, cigarettes and gilded boards: Pharos the Egyptian and consumer culture
Eleanor Dobson 8 The intelligibility of the past in Bram Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars
Luz Elena Ramirez Index