Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egypt (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526141880)

This edited collection considers representations of ancient Egypt in the literature of the nineteenth-century. It addresses themes such as reanimated mummies, ancient Egyptian mythology and contemporary consumer culture across literary modes ranging from burlesque satire to historical novels, stage performances to Gothic fiction and popular culture to the highbrow. The book illuminates unknown sources of historical significance - including the first illustration of an ambulatory mummy - revising current understandings of the works of canonical writers and grounding its analysis firmly in a contemporary context. The contributors demonstrate the extensive range of cultural interest in ancient Egypt that flourished during Victoria's reign. At the same time, they use ancient Egypt to interrogate 'selfhood' and 'otherness', notions of race, imperialism, religion, gender and sexuality.

Author: Eleanor Dobson
ISBN-10: 1526141884
ISBN-13: 9781526141880
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/28/2020
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d