Ancient Egypt in the modern imagination : art, literature and culture
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Dobson, Eleanor
, [HerausgeberIn]
Tonks, Nichola, , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2020.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xiii, 365 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Part I: The Egyptological Imaginary
- 1. 'Wonderful Things' in Kingston Upon Hull
- 2. 'Let Sleeping Scarabs Alone': When Egypt Came to Stonehenge
- 3. 'Mummy First: Statue After': Wyndham Lewis, Diffusionism, Mosaic Distinctions and the Egyptian Origins of Art
- 4. Ancient Egypt in William S. Burroughs's Novels
- 5. Between Success and Controversy: Christian Jacq and the Marketing of 'Egyptological' Fiction
- Part II: Death and Mysticism
- 6. Egyptomania, English Pyramids and the Quest for Immortality
- 7. Obituaries and Obelisks: Egyptianising Funerary Architecture and the Cemetery as a Heterotopic Space
- 8. Tutankhartier: Death, Rebirth and Decoration; or, Tutmania in the 1920s as a Metaphor for a Society in Recovery After the World War One
- 9. Celtic Egyptians: Isis Priests of the Lineage of Scota
- 10. Jack the Ripper and the Mummy's Curse: Ancient Egypt in From Hell
- Part III: Gender and Sexuality
- 11. From Sekhmet to Suffrage: Ancient Egypt in Early Twentieth-Century Women's Culture
- 12. 'The Use of Old Objects': Ancient Egypt and English Writers around 1920
- 13. Women Surrealists and Egyptian Mythology: Sphinxes, Animals and Magic
- 14. Egyptian Excesses: Burton, Taylor and Cleopatra
- 15. The Mummy, the Priestess and the Heroine: Embodying and Legitimating Female Power in 1970s Girls' Comics.
