Writing the Sphinx : literature, culture and Egyptology / Eleanor Dobson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dobson, Eleanor, author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 265 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

Summary:

This text explores literary and Egyptological cultures from the closing decades of the nineteenth century to the opening decades of the twentieth, culminating in the aftermath of the high-profile discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Series Editor’s Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Hieroglyphs

Introduction

1. ‘Wonderful things’: Howard Carter, Literary Genre and Material Intertextuality

2. ‘Fairy tales’ and ‘bunkum’: Marie Corelli, Artefacts and Fabrications

3. ‘The master-key that opens every door’: Hieroglyphs, Translations and Palimpsests

4. ‘Drunk on the dead’: Intoxication, Perfume and Mummy Dust

5. ‘The sphinx will speak at last’: Visions, Communications and Spiritual Experience

Coda

Appendix: ‘Story of an Egyptian Necklace’

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 26, 2021).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-9596-6

1-4744-7626-0

OCLC:

1306540109