Title: Reading the Sphinx
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.
Subjects: American literature, Egyptian influences, English literature, History and criticism, Western Civilization, Egyptian literature, history and criticism, HISTORY, Ancient, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature
Time periods: 19th century