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Writing the Sphinx: Literature, Culture and Egyptology (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture) - Softcover

Dobson, Eleanor

 
9781474476256: Writing the Sphinx: Literature, Culture and Egyptology (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1474476252 ISBN 13: 9781474476256
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Unearths a rich tradition of creative flexibility, collaboration and mutual influence between literary culture and Egyptology

The first monograph study to bring literature into conversation with Egyptological cultureIncorporates a number of archival primary sources which have, until now, escaped critical attentionAnalyses canonical literature alongside works by lesser-known authors Combines literary criticism with book history, the history of science, and reception studiesThis book 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. Analysing the works of Egyptologists including Howard Carter, Arthur Weigall and E. A. Wallis Budge alongside those of their literary contemporaries such as H. Rider Haggard, Marie Corelli and Oscar Wilde, it investigates the textual, cultural and material exchanges between literature, Egyptology and visual and material culture across this period.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eleanor Dobson is Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. Her most recent publications include Dobson, E 2019, ''The most magical of mirrors': Oscar Wilde, photography, and cultures of spiritualism', English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Dobson, E & Banks, G 2018, Excavating Modernity: Physical, Temporal and Psychological Strata in Literature, 1900-1930. in E Dobson & G Banks (eds), Excavating Modernity: Physical, Temporal and Psychological Strata in Literature, 1900-1930. Routledge, and ‘A Tomb with a View: Supernatural Experiences in the Late Nineteenth Century’s Egyptian Hotels,’ in M Elbert & S Schmid (eds), Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth Century Literature: Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing. Routledge, pp. 89-105.

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Unearths a rich tradition of creative flexibility, collaboration and mutual influence between literary culture and EgyptologyThis book 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. Analysing the works of Egyptologists including Howard Carter, Arthur Weigall and E. A. Wallis Budge alongside those of their literary contemporaries such as H. Rider Haggard, Marie Corelli and Oscar Wilde, it investigates the textual, cultural and material exchanges between literature, Egyptology and visual and material culture across this period.Eleanor Dobson is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham.

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1474476252
ISBN 13 
9781474476256
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
280
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