Victorian literary culture and ancient Egypt

Weitere Verfasser: Dobson, Eleanor , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Umfang/Format: xiii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Großbritannien
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • 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 the aesthetic and decadent imaginary /
  • 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.