Title Reading the Sphinx : ancient Egypt in nineteenth-century literary culture / Lynn Parramore

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations Contents The Egyptomania Craze: From Wedgwood China to the Washington Monument -- Tales from the Crypt: Theories of Cultural Burial -- The Exquisite Corpse: Nineteenth-century Literary Revivals -- The Empire of the Imagination: Egypt and Esoterica -- Strangers in a Strange Land: Travelers in Egypt -- Oedipus Aegyptiacus: Egypt and Early Psychology Summary Reading the Sphinx unearths buried conflicts in religion, myth, and the memory of Egypt in the West, illuminating issues of identity, inheritance, gender, and sexuality through cultural productions ranging from Herodotus to Freud Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index Notes Print version record Subject Civilization, Western -- Egyptian influences. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English literature -- Egyptian influences. American literature -- Egyptian influences Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. HISTORY -- Ancient. Literature. American literature American literature -- Egyptian influences Civilization, Western -- Egyptian influences English literature English literature -- Egyptian influences Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2008007173 ISBN 9780230615700 0230615708 1282198858 9781282198852

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