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  title info:
    title: British women writers and the reception of ancient Egypt, 1840-1910
    sub title: imperialist representations of Egyptian women
  name:
    name part: Youngkin, Molly
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvii, 229 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: "Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Molly Youngkin shows how British women writers' encounters with textual and visual representations of ancient Egyptian women such as Hathor, Isis, and Cleopatra influenced how British women represented their own desired emancipation in novels, poetry, drama, romances, and fictional treatises"--
  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 cross-cultural romances -- 6. "My ancestor, my sister": ancient heritage imagery and modern Egyptian women writers -- Afterword.
  note: Molly Youngkin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    topic: Women authors
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    topic: Egyptian influences
  subject:
    topic: Women in literature
  subject:
    topic: Egyptians in literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: European
    topic: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: Women Authors
  classification: PR115 .Y68 2016
  classification: 820.9/35832
  classification: LIT000000 LIT003000 LIT004120 LIT004290
  identifier: 9781137570765
  identifier: 1137570768
  identifier: 2015023508
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150811
    record change date: 20170928112408.0
    record identifier: in00003608739
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng