Format:
1 Online-Ressource (290 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783653055108
Series Statement:
ALPH: Arbeiten zur Literarischen Phantastik / ALPH: Approaches to Literary Phantasy 8
Content:
Ancient and modern Egypt feature in numerous fantastic stories by Victorian and Edwardian writers. This book explores how works of popular Egyptianising fantastic literature can be read as critical texts which comment on the Oriental mind-set of Europe, and especially Britain. The analysis of the genre and the discussion of possible reasons for the frequent use of Egyptianising elements show that Egypt was simultaneously a real and an imagined place – a perfect ingredient to create gothic stories and magical events, and, at the same time, of specific interest to Great Britain for cultural and political reasons
Content:
Contents: Ancient Egypt in Literature – The West versus the East – Mummies and other Egyptian characters and objects – Magic and alchemy – Self-criticism – Orientalism – Tourism – Museums – Collections – Encounters with the Other – Encounters with ancient Egypt
Note:
Dissertation Universität Leipzig 2014
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631660980
Additional Edition:
Available in another form ISBN 9783631660980
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fleischhack, Maria, 1983 - Narrating ancient Egypt Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Edition, 2015 ISBN 3631660987
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631660980
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Fantastische Literatur
;
Ägypten
;
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-653-05510-8
URL:
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Author information:
Fleischhack, Maria 1983-
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