Title: Reading the sphinx : ancient Egypt in nineteenth-century literary culture /
Authors: Parramore, Lynn.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Civilization, Western Egyptian influences; English literature History and criticism; American literature History and criticism; English literature Egyptian influences; American literature Egyptian influences.; HISTORY Ancient.; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.; Literature.; American literature.; American literature Egyptian influences.; Civilization, Western Egyptian influences.; English literature; English literature Egyptian influences
Abstract: Reading the Sphinx unearths buried conflicts in religion, myth, and the memory of Egypt in the West, illuminating issues of identity, inheritance, gender, and sexuality through cultural productions ranging from Herodotus to Freud.
Contents: Introduction -- The Egyptomania craze : from Wedgwood China to the Washington Monument -- Tales from the crypt : theories of cultural burial -- The exquisite corpse : nineteenth-century literary revivals -- The empire of the imagination : Egypt and esoterica -- Strangers in a strange land : travelers in Egypt -- Oedipus Aegyptiacus : Egypt and early psychology -- Afterlives.