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Writing the Sphinx : Literature, Culture and Egyptology / Eleanor Dobson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVCPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) : 38 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474476249
  • 9781474476263
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.93583201 23
LOC classification:
  • PR468.H57 D63 2020eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: Unearths a rich tradition of creative flexibility, collaboration and mutual influence between literary culture and EgyptologyThe 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 authorsCombines 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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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

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Unearths a rich tradition of creative flexibility, collaboration and mutual influence between literary culture and EgyptologyThe 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 authorsCombines 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)