Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egypt

Eleanor Dobson is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham

• Introduction – Eleanor Dobson1 Allamistakeo awakes: the earliest image of an ambulatory mummy – Jasmine Day2 Adam Bede: an ancient Egyptian book of Genesis – Haythem Bastawy3 Remembering Mrs Potiphar: Victorian reclamations of a biblical temptress – Angie Blumberg4 Prefiguring the cross: a typological reading of H. Rider Haggard’s Cleopatra – Sara Woodward5 ‘The culminating flower of cat-worship in Egypt’: nineteenth-century stage Cleopatras and Victorian views of ancient Egypt – Molly Youngkin6 ‘A Memnon waiting for the day’: ancient Egypt in aestheticism and decadence – Giles Whiteley7 Perfume, cigarettes and gilded boards: Pharos the Egyptian and consumer culture – Eleanor Dobson8 The intelligibility of the past in Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars – Luz Elena RamirezIndex

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