Ancient Egypt in the Modern Imagination

Eleanor Dobson is Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her work focuses on culture of the nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries. Nichola Tonks is an AHRC-funded doctoral candidate in History and the Co-Editor of the Journal of History and Cultures and the University of Birmingham, UK.

This edited volume is successful in highlighting the virtue of approaching the reception of Ancient Egypt from several academic disciplines: the various contributions are well written and illustrate the relevance of the topic throughout several spheres of modern life

• SECTION ITHE EGYPTOLOGICAL IMAGINARY1. ‘Wonderful Things’ in Kingston Upon Hull (Gabrielle Heffernan, Hull Museums, UK)2. ‘Let Sleeping Scarabs Alone’: When Egypt Came to Stonehenge (Martyn Barber, Historic England, UK)3. ‘Mummy First: Statue After’: Wyndham Lewis, Diffusionism, Mosaic Distinctions and the Egyptian Origins of Art (Edward Chaney, Southampton Solent University, UK)4. Ancient Egypt in William S. Burroughs’s Novels (Riccardo Gramantieri)5. Between Success and Controversy: Christian Jacq and the Marketing of ‘Egyptological’ Fiction (Vassilaki Papanicolaou, Bordeaux-Montaigne University, France)SECTION IIDEATH AND MYSTICISM6. Egyptomania, English Pyramids and the Quest for Immortality (Jolene Zigarovich, University of Northern Iowa, USA)7. Obituaries and Obelisks: Egyptianising Funerary Architecture and the Cemetery as a Heterotopic Space (Nichola Tonks, University of Birmingham, UK)8. Tutankhartier: Death, Rebirth and Decoration; or, Tutmania in the 1920s as a Metaphor for a Society in Recovery After the World War One Lizzie Glithero-West, Heritage Alliance, UK)9. Celtic Egyptians: Isis Priests of the Lineage of Scota (Caroline Tully, University of Melbourne, Australia)10. Jack the Ripper and the Mummy’s Curse: Ancient Egypt in From Hell (Eleanor Dobson, University of Birmingham, UK)SECTION IIIGENDER AND SEXUALITY11. From Sekhmet to Suffrage: Ancient Egypt in Early Twentieth-Century Women’s Culture (Mara Gold, University of Oxford, UK)12. ‘The Use of Old Objects’: Ancient Egypt and English Writers around 1920 (R.B. Parkinson, University of Oxford, UK)13. Women Surrealists and Egyptian Mythology: Sphinxes, Animals and Magic (Sabina Stent, University of Birmingham, UK)14. Egyptian Excesses: Burton, Taylor and Cleopatra (Siv Jansson, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)15. The Mummy, the Priestess and the Heroine: Embodying and Legitimating Female Power in 1970s Girls’ Comics (Nickianne Moody, Liverpool John Moores University, UK)Bibliography Index