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1 online resource (261 pages)
ISBN:
9781793635686
Content:
Romantic Egypt argues that the balance between knowing and not-knowing, between deciphering and imagining an archaic Egypt, was essential to the development of the Romantic imaginary, particularly in Britain and Germany: for the Romantics western philosophy and art had their birth in Ancient Egypt.
Content:
Cover -- Romantic Egypt -- Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Encountering Egypt -- II. Translation and the Problem of Egypt -- III. Not-knowing -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Prior Time -- I. Egyptianism -- II. The Alexandrian Dream -- III. Archaic Egypt -- IV. Egyptian Idealism -- V. Apocalyptic Memory -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Geographica -- I. Archival Fever -- II. Schelling's Geographica -- III. Mary Shelley's Ruinous Geography -- IV. Blake and Empire -- V. Mapping Empires -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Ruins -- I. Ruins -- II. Shelley, Hegel, and the Monumental -- III. Ruinous Spirit -- IV. Necropolitics: The City of the Dead and Remainders -- V. Tarrying with the Negative -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- Spirit Magic -- I. The Ground of Origin -- II. Dark Centers -- III. Negative Theology -- IV. Spirit Love -- V. Mythopoetics -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Hieroglyphica -- I. Mentality and Language -- II. Orientalism -- III. The Morley Notebooks -- IV. The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland -- V. Morley and the Romance of the Orient -- VI. Hieroglyphic Fever -- VII. Hieroglyphica -- VIII. Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781793635679
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fay, Elizabeth A., 1957 - Romantic Egypt Lanham : Lexington Books, 2021 ISBN 9781793635679
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781793635693
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Ägypten
;
Rezeption
;
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Romantik
;
Geschichte 1700-1900
;
Englisch
;
Deutsch
;
Literatur
;
Romantik
;
Ägyptenbild
