Romantic Egypt - Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism

Romantic Egypt argues that the balance between knowing and not-knowing, between deciphering and imagining an archaic Egypt, was essential to the development of the Romantic imaginary, particularly in Britain and Germany: for the Romantics western philosophy and art had their birth in Ancient Egypt.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One: Prior Time
Chapter Two: Geographica
Chapter Three: Ruins
Chapter Four: Spirit Magic
Chapter Five: Hieroglyphica

About the author

Elizabeth Fay is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Fay, Elizabeth A. Fay
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781793635679
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-567-9
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, British literature;Colonial;Egypt;Postcolonial;Romanticism