Reading the Sphinx
Subtitle: Ancient Egypt in 19th Century Literary Culture (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 14, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230603288
Subjects: General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
Description: 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.