Description
| Product ID: | 9781474476256 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture |
| Title: | Writing the Sphinx |
| Subtitle: | Literature, Culture and Egyptology |
| Authors: | Author: Eleanor Dobson |
| Page Count: | 280 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art / art & design styles, Literary studies: general, Archaeology by period / region, Literary studies: general, Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology |
| Description: | This 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. Unearths a rich tradition of creative flexibility, collaboration and mutual influence between literary culture and Egyptology
This 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-08-18 |
