British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910
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British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910

Imperialist Representations of Egyptian Women

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eBook - PDF

British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910

Imperialist Representations of Egyptian Women

About this book

Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Youngkin shows the oftentimes limited but pervasive representations of ancient Egyptian women in their written and visual works. Images of Hathor, Isis, and Cleopatra influenced how British writers such as George Eliot and Edith Cooper came to represent female emancipation.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Bound by an English Eye: Ancient Cultures, Imperialist Contexts, and Literary Representations of Ancient Egyptian Women
  11. 2 Acting as “the right hand ... of God”: Christianized Egyptian Women and Religious Devotion as Emancipation in Florence Nightingale’s Fictionalized Treatises
  12. 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 Novels
  13. 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 Dramas
  14. 5 The “sweetness of the serpent of old Nile”: Revisionist Cleopatra and Spiritual Union as Emancipation in Elinor Glyn’s Cross - Cultural Romances
  15. 6 “My ancestor, my sister”: Ancient Heritage Imagery and Modern Egyptian Women Writers
  16. Afterword
  17. Notes
  18. Works Cited
  19. Index