Writing the Sphinx: Literature, Culture and Egyptology Contributor(s): Dobson, Eleanor (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474476244 ISBN-13: 9781474476249 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Ancient & Classical - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - History | Ancient - Egypt |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 280 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |