Add to ORKGAncient Egyptian culture has been a powerful influence on a major tradition of English literature that runs from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1596), one of whose major iconographic centers is the temple of Isis, to John Crowley's four-volume novel Ægypt (2007). My dissertation focuses on the Romantic period - the midpoint of this trajectory - because it is an extremely intense moment of this influence. In addition to the visions of Egypt presented in the Bible, Greco-Roman writers, and travel narratives, ancient Egypt reached American and British culture of the time through a variety of channels, such as (1) Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798, which allowed a stream of Egyptian monuments to travel into Europe and America; (2) the...
My thesis argues that Edmund Spenser uses radically different representations of Ancient Egypt to ex...
The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the...
This article investigates the story of Aleister Crowley's reception of The Book of the Law in Cairo,...
This thesis argues that a nuanced understanding of Egyptological writing across the late nineteenth ...
Nineteenth-century fiction participated in a wider cultural discourse through which a constructed sp...
In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The o...
My dissertation argues that a symbiotic relationship between fiction and the occult existed in ninet...
The rising profession of archaeology in nineteenth-century Britain popularized the study of antiquit...
From ancient Rome to the present day, ancient Egypt has been a source of fascination and inspirati...
From ancient Rome to the present day, ancient Egypt has been a source of fascination and inspirati...
The rising profession of archaeology in nineteenth-century Britain popularized the study of antiquit...
This project addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the secon...
Mapping and subsequently classifying encounters with ancient Egypt, one is faced with a large task. ...
This project addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the secon...
This dissertation explores the role that wise women, especially Upper Egyptian female healers, playe...
My thesis argues that Edmund Spenser uses radically different representations of Ancient Egypt to ex...
The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the...
This article investigates the story of Aleister Crowley's reception of The Book of the Law in Cairo,...
This thesis argues that a nuanced understanding of Egyptological writing across the late nineteenth ...
Nineteenth-century fiction participated in a wider cultural discourse through which a constructed sp...
In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The o...
My dissertation argues that a symbiotic relationship between fiction and the occult existed in ninet...
The rising profession of archaeology in nineteenth-century Britain popularized the study of antiquit...
From ancient Rome to the present day, ancient Egypt has been a source of fascination and inspirati...
From ancient Rome to the present day, ancient Egypt has been a source of fascination and inspirati...
The rising profession of archaeology in nineteenth-century Britain popularized the study of antiquit...
This project addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the secon...
Mapping and subsequently classifying encounters with ancient Egypt, one is faced with a large task. ...
This project addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the secon...
This dissertation explores the role that wise women, especially Upper Egyptian female healers, playe...
My thesis argues that Edmund Spenser uses radically different representations of Ancient Egypt to ex...
The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the...
This article investigates the story of Aleister Crowley's reception of The Book of the Law in Cairo,...