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Ancient and modern Egypt feature in numerous fantastic stories by Victorian and Edwardian writers. This book explores how works of popular Egyptianising fantastic literature can be read as critical texts which comment on the Oriental mind-set of Europe, and especially Britain. The analysis of the genre and the discussion of possible reasons for the frequent use of Egyptianising elements show that Egypt was simultaneously a real and an imagined place - a perfect ingredient to create gothic stories and magical events, and, at the same time, of specific interest to Great Britain for cultural and political reasons.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Narrating Ancient Egypt
• Author: Maria Fleischhack
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 290
• EAN: 9783631660980
• ISBN: 9783631660980
• ID: 10025360
• Publisher: Peter Lang AG
• Weight: 474 g
• Dimensions: 156 × 215 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. April 2015

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