Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egypt
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781526141880
Description: An academic study to address ancient Egypt as it was appropriated across disparate literary modes during the Victorian era. Drawing on texts by canonical authors while illuminating new sources and understudied works, it brings the highbrow and the popular into conversation, addressing contemporary ideas of race, gender and religion.