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Informationen zum Autor Elliott Colla is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Klappentext "Written in an engaging, thoughtful, and provocative style, "Conflicted Antiquities" provides a unique perspective on the 'consumption' of ancient Egypt. What makes it distinctive is Elliott Colla's focus on Egyptian readings of the ancient past, an area which has been greatly neglected. Colla has much that is fresh and new to contribute, especially since the resources on which he draws are not widely known nor easy to get hold of."-- Stephanie Moser, author of "Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum" Zusammenfassung A cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture! from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Egyptian Sculpture Room 1 1. The Artification of the Memnon Head 24 Ozymandias 67 2. Conflicted Antiquities: Islam’s Pharaoh and Emergent Egyptology 72 The Antiqakhana 116 3. Pharaonic Selves 121 Two Pharaohs 166 4. The Discovery of Tutankhamen’s Tomb: Archaeology, Politics, and Literature 172 Nahdat Misr 227 5. Pharaonism after Pharaonism: Mahfouz and Qutb 234 Conclusion 273 Notes 279 Bibliography 311 Index 329
