Dobson / Unknown Victorian literary culture and ancient Egypt

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4189-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester University Press

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Dobson, Eleanor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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