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Victorian literary culture and Ancient Egypt / edited by Eleanor Dobson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Manchester University Press Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Egyptology--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Egyptology.
- Egypt--In literature.
- Egypt.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- An 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- MUP 2020 titles.
- Made available via: manchesterhive.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 17, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781526141897
- 1526141892
- OCLC:
- 1154244259
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