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Ancient Egypt in the Modern Imagination : Art, Literature and Culture / Eleanor Dobson, Nichola Tonks.

Contributor(s): Dobson, Eleanor [editor.] | Tonks, Nichola [editor.]Material type: TextTextReference number:019687168Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020Description: 1 online resource (384 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781786726643; 1786726645Subject(s): History -- Ancient -- Egypt | History -- Reference | History -- Middle East -- Egypt | Ancient history: to c 500 CEOnline resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
SECTION ITHE EGYPTOLOGICAL IMAGINARY1. 'Wonderful Things' in Kingston Upon Hull (Gabrielle Heffernan, Hull Museums, UK)2. 'Let Sleeping Scarabs Alone': When Egypt Came to Stonehenge (Martyn Barber, Historic England, UK)3. 'Mummy First: Statue After': Wyndham Lewis, Diffusionism, Mosaic Distinctions and the Egyptian Origins of Art (Edward Chaney, Southampton Solent University, UK)4. Ancient Egypt in William S. Burroughs's Novels (Riccardo Gramantieri)5. Between Success and Controversy: Christian Jacq and the Marketing of 'Egyptological' Fiction (Vassilaki Papanicolaou, Bordeaux-Montaigne University, France)SECTION IIDEATH AND MYSTICISM6. Egyptomania, English Pyramids and the Quest for Immortality (Jolene Zigarovich, University of Northern Iowa, USA)7. Obituaries and Obelisks: Egyptianising Funerary Architecture and the Cemetery as a Heterotopic Space (Nichola Tonks, University of Birmingham, UK)8. Tutankhartier: Death, Rebirth and Decoration; or, Tutmania in the 1920s as a Metaphor for a Society in Recovery After the World War One Lizzie Glithero-West, Heritage Alliance, UK)9. Celtic Egyptians: Isis Priests of the Lineage of Scota (Caroline Tully, University of Melbourne, Australia)10. Jack the Ripper and the Mummy's Curse: Ancient Egypt in From Hell (Eleanor Dobson, University of Birmingham, UK)SECTION IIIGENDER AND SEXUALITY11. From Sekhmet to Suffrage: Ancient Egypt in Early Twentieth-Century Women's Culture (Mara Gold, University of Oxford, UK)12. 'The Use of Old Objects': Ancient Egypt and English Writers around 1920 (R.B. Parkinson, University of Oxford, UK)13. Women Surrealists and Egyptian Mythology: Sphinxes, Animals and Magic (Sabina Stent, University of Birmingham, UK)14. Egyptian Excesses: Burton, Taylor and Cleopatra (Siv Jansson, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)15. The Mummy, the Priestess and the Heroine: Embodying and Legitimating Female Power in 1970s Girls' Comics (Nickianne Moody, Liverpool John Moores University, UK)Bibliography Index.
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SECTION ITHE EGYPTOLOGICAL IMAGINARY1. 'Wonderful Things' in Kingston Upon Hull (Gabrielle Heffernan, Hull Museums, UK)2. 'Let Sleeping Scarabs Alone': When Egypt Came to Stonehenge (Martyn Barber, Historic England, UK)3. 'Mummy First: Statue After': Wyndham Lewis, Diffusionism, Mosaic Distinctions and the Egyptian Origins of Art (Edward Chaney, Southampton Solent University, UK)4. Ancient Egypt in William S. Burroughs's Novels (Riccardo Gramantieri)5. Between Success and Controversy: Christian Jacq and the Marketing of 'Egyptological' Fiction (Vassilaki Papanicolaou, Bordeaux-Montaigne University, France)SECTION IIDEATH AND MYSTICISM6. Egyptomania, English Pyramids and the Quest for Immortality (Jolene Zigarovich, University of Northern Iowa, USA)7. Obituaries and Obelisks: Egyptianising Funerary Architecture and the Cemetery as a Heterotopic Space (Nichola Tonks, University of Birmingham, UK)8. Tutankhartier: Death, Rebirth and Decoration; or, Tutmania in the 1920s as a Metaphor for a Society in Recovery After the World War One Lizzie Glithero-West, Heritage Alliance, UK)9. Celtic Egyptians: Isis Priests of the Lineage of Scota (Caroline Tully, University of Melbourne, Australia)10. Jack the Ripper and the Mummy's Curse: Ancient Egypt in From Hell (Eleanor Dobson, University of Birmingham, UK)SECTION IIIGENDER AND SEXUALITY11. From Sekhmet to Suffrage: Ancient Egypt in Early Twentieth-Century Women's Culture (Mara Gold, University of Oxford, UK)12. 'The Use of Old Objects': Ancient Egypt and English Writers around 1920 (R.B. Parkinson, University of Oxford, UK)13. Women Surrealists and Egyptian Mythology: Sphinxes, Animals and Magic (Sabina Stent, University of Birmingham, UK)14. Egyptian Excesses: Burton, Taylor and Cleopatra (Siv Jansson, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)15. The Mummy, the Priestess and the Heroine: Embodying and Legitimating Female Power in 1970s Girls' Comics (Nickianne Moody, Liverpool John Moores University, UK)Bibliography Index.

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