Writing the Sphinx: Literature, Culture and Egyptology (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture) - Softcover

Dobson, Eleanor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474476252 ISBN 13: 9781474476256

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Eleanor Dobson is Associate Professor in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Victorian Alchemy: Science, Magic and Ancient Egypt (2022) and Writing the Sphinx: Literature, Culture and Egyptology (2020), the second chapter of which focuses on Corelli. Eleanor worked with Joanna Turner co-editing and co-writing for a special issue of Victoriographies on Corelli in 2025.

From the Back Cover

Unearths a rich tradition of creative flexibility, collaboration and mutual influence between literary culture and Egyptology 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. Eleanor Dobson is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474476252
• ISBN 13: 9781474476256
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280