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Writing the Sphinx

Literature, Culture and Egyptology

Eleanor Dobson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:18th Aug '22

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This book explores literary and Egyptological cultures from the closing decades of the nineteenth century to the opening decades of the twentieth, culminating in the aftermath of the high-profile discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. Analysing the works of Egyptologists including Howard Carter, Arthur Weigall and E. A. Wallis Budge alongside those of their literary contemporaries such as H. Rider Haggard, Marie Corelli and Oscar Wilde, it investigates the textual, cultural and material exchanges between literature, Egyptology and visual and material culture across this period.

ISBN: 9781474476256

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280 pages