Victorian Literary Culture Ancient Egypt
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- Engels
- Hardcover
- 9781526141880
- 28 juli 2020
- 240 pagina's
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This volume explores the depiction of ancient Egypt in nineteenth-century literature. It addresses themes such as reanimated mummies, mythology, and consumer culture across a range of literary forms, from burlesque satire to historical novels, stage performances to Gothic fiction, and popular culture to the elite productions of the aesthetes and decadents.
Assembling scholars with a variety of backgrounds and interests, the book presents previously unknown sources of historical significance, including the first illustration of an ambulatory mummy. It revises our understanding of canonical Victorian writers such as George Eliot and Oscar Wilde, while shedding light on understudied figures, including Charles Wells, Louisa Stuart Costello and Guy Boothby. It also looks beyond British literature to America and Europe, exploring the presentation of Egyptian themes in Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire and others. These writers are united by the way they use ancient Egypt to interrogate ‘selfhood’ and ‘otherness’, or to question notions of race, imperialism, religion, gender and sexuality.
Revealing the full range of cultural interest in ancient Egypt that flourished during Victoria’s reign, the volume will appeal to students and scholars in literary studies, history and the visual arts, particularly those working on gender, race, religion, archaeology and Egyptology.
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.
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