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Writing the Sphinx : literature, 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.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- 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