Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egypt

Informationen zum Autor Eleanor Dobson is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Eleanor Dobson1 Allamistakeo awakes: the earliest image of an ambulatory mummy - Jasmine Day2 Adam Bede : an ancient Egyptian book of Genesis - Haythem Bastawy3 Remembering Mrs Potiphar: Victorian reclamations of a biblical temptress - Angie Blumberg4 Prefiguring the cross: a typological reading of H. Rider Haggard's Cleopatra - Sara Woodward5 'The culminating flower of cat-worship in Egypt': nineteenth-century stage Cleopatras and Victorian views of ancient Egypt - Molly Youngkin6 'A Memnon waiting for the day': ancient Egypt in aestheticism and decadence - Giles Whiteley7 Perfume, cigarettes and gilded boards: Pharos the Egyptian and consumer culture - Eleanor Dobson8 The intelligibility of the past in Bram Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars - Luz Elena RamirezIndex

Product details

• Authors: Eleanor Dobson
• Assisted by: Eleanor Dobson (Editor), Dobson Eleanor (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781526141880
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4188-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Manchester University Press
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Poetry, drama; English, HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Archaeology by period / region, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology