Overview

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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Author:   Molly Youngkin
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Weight:   0.335kg
ISBN:  

9781349555208

ISBN 10:   1349555207
Pages:   229
Publication Date:   09 February 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction 1. Bound by an English Eye: Ancient Cultures, Imperialist Contexts, and Literary Representations of Egyptian Women 2. Acting as ""the right hand . . . of God"": Christianized Egyptian Women and Religious Devotion as Emancipation in Florence Nightingale's Fictionalized Treatises 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 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 5. The ""sweetness of the serpent of old Nile"": Revisionist Cleopatra and Spiritual Union as Emancipation in Elinor Glyn's Crosscultural Romances 6. ""My ancestor, my sister"": Ancient Heritage Imagery and Modern Egyptian Women Writers Afterword"

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British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt offers a new perspective on a set of authors and texts which will help to open up the study of Victorian receptions of ancient Egypt, as well as being of interest to scholars and students of nineteenth-century literature, postcolonialisms, and gender studies. (Laura Eastlake, English Literature in Transition, Vol. 60 (4), 2017)

“British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt offers a new perspective on a set of authors and texts which will help to open up the study of Victorian receptions of ancient Egypt, as well as being of interest to scholars and students of nineteenth-century literature, postcolonialisms, and gender studies.” (Laura Eastlake, English Literature in Transition, Vol. 60 (4), 2017) 

Author Information

Molly Youngkin is Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA. Her previous publications include Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel (2007) and an annotated edition of Sarah Grand's 1888 novel Ideala (2008).

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