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Author Youngkin, Molly, 1970- author
Title British women writers and the reception of ancient Egypt, 1840-1910 : imperialist representations of Egyptian women / Molly Youngkin
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Copyright ©2016
Location Call number ITEM STATUS
 MAIN STACKS  PR115 .Y68 2016  Nearby on shelf  AVAILABLE
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Description xxvii, 229 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary "Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Molly Youngkin shows how British women writers' encounters with textual and visual representations of ancient Egyptian women such as Hathor, Isis, and Cleopatra influenced how British women represented their own desired emancipation in novels, poetry, drama, romances, and fictional treatises"-- Provided by publisher
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
English literature -- Egyptian influences
Women in literature
Egyptians in literature
Academic Subj. English Literature
Women's Studies
ISBN 9781137570765 (hardcover)
1137570768 (hardcover)
Table of Contents
 List of Illustrationsix
 Acknowledgmentsxi
 Introductionxiii
1.Bound by an English Eye: Ancient Cultures, Imperialist Contexts, and Literary Representations of Ancient Egyptian Women1
2.Acting as "the right hand . . . of God": Christianized Egyptian Women and Religious Devotion as Emancipation in Florence Nightingale's Fictionalized Treatises35
3."[T]o give new elements . . . as vivid as . . . long familiar types": Heroic Jewish Men, Dangerous Egyptian Women, and Equivocal Emancipation in George Eliot's Novels63
4."[W]e had never chosen a Byzantine subject . . . or one from Alexandria": Emancipation Through Desire and the Eastern Limits of Beauty in Michael Field's Verse Dramas99
5."sweetness of the serpent of old Nile": Revisionist Cleopatra and Spiritual Union as Emancipation in Elinor Glyn's Cross-Cultural Romances131
6."My ancestor, my sister": Ancient Heritage Imagery and Modern Egyptian Women Writers155
 Afterword183
 Notes185
 Works Cited201
 Index215



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